1. CHAPTER 5
ROADS TO REVOLUTION, 1750–1776

2. Triumph and Tensions: The British Empire, 1750–1763
A Fragile Peace, 1750–1754
The Seven Years’ War in America, 1754–1760
The End of French North America, 1760–1763
Anglo-American Friction
Frontier Tensions

3. The Seven Years’ War in North America 1754–1760

4. European Territorial Claims, 1763

5. Imperial Authority, Colonial Opposition, 1760–1766
Writs of Assistance, 1760–1761
The Sugar Act, 1764
The Stamp Act Crisis, 1765–1766
Ideology, Religion, and Resistance
Resistance Resumes, 1766–1770

6. Opposing the Quartering Act, 1766–1767
Crisis Over the Townshend Duties, 1767–1770
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Customs “Racketeering,” 1767–1770
“Wilkes and Liberty,” 1768–1770

7. The Deepening Crisis, 1770–1774 The Boston Massacre, 1770
The Committees of Correspondence, 1772–1773
Conflicts in the Backcountry
The Tea Act, 1773

8. Toward Independence, 1774–1776 Liberty for African-Americans
The “Intolerable Acts”
The First Continental Congress
From Resistance to Rebellion
Common Sense
Declaring Independence