LEADER 03503nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910463103303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-94037-X 010 $a1-4422-0489-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000329164 035 $a(EBL)1043754 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000804486 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12380803 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000804486 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10814466 035 $a(PQKB)11280351 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1043754 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1043754 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10643311 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL425287 035 $a(OCoLC)747306219 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000329164 100 $a20100709d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerica's beginnings$b[electronic resource] $ethe dramatic events that shaped a nation's character /$fTony Williams 210 $aLanham, MD $cRowman & Littlefield Publishers ;$aWilliamsburg, VA $cin association with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4422-0488-5 311 $a1-4422-0487-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index. 327 $aAmerica'a Beginnings; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part I. Settlement; 1. Lost Colony; 2. Jamestown; 3. Starving Time; 4. First Representative Legislature in Britain's New World; 5. First Africans; 6. Mayflower Compact; 7. City Upon a Hill; 8. Indian Uprising of 1622; 9. Dissents of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams; 10. Pequot War; Part II. Colonies; 11. King Philip's War; 12. Bacon's Rebellion; 13. Glorious Revolution in America; 14. Salem Witch Trials; 15. Boston Smallpox Epidemic of 1721; 16. Great Awakening; 17. Benjamin Franklin and the Lightning Rod; 18. Albany Plan of Union 327 $a19. Great Meadows20. Braddock's March; 21. Royal Proclamation of 1763; Part III. Resistance; 22. Stamp Act; 23. Townshend Acts; 24. Boston Massacre; 25. Boston Tea Party; 26. Continental Congress; 27. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death; Part IV. War; 28. Lexington and Concord; 29. Bunker Hill; 30. Fort Ticonderoga; 31. Common Sense; 32. Declaration of Rights; 33. Declaration of Independence; 34. Crossing the Delaware; 35. Saratoga; 36. French Alliance; 37. Valley Forge; 38. Guilford Courthouse; 39. Yorktown; 40. Newburgh Conspiracy; 41. Peace Treaty of 1783 327 $a42. Washington Surrenders His CommissionPart V. Nationhood; 43. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; 44. Annapolis Convention; 45. Shays' Rebellion; 46. Constitutional Convention; 47. Ratifying Conventions; 48. The Federalist; 49. Inauguration of George Washington; 50. Bill of Rights; Bibliography; Index 330 $aAt a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 key events-some known and some forgotten-that shaped colonial and revolutionary America, from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention. 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a973.2 700 $aWilliams$b Tony$f1970-$0957354 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463103303321 996 $aAmerica's beginnings$92168533 997 $aUNINA