1. Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation 6/e
Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition

2. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
Loosening Ties
A Decentralized Empire
Decentralized Colonial Administration
Assertive Colonial Assemblies
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3. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
Loosening Ties
The Colonies Divided
Albany Plan
A Map of the New World (Royalty-Free/CORBIS)
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4. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
The Struggle for the Continent
Seven Years’ War
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5. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
The Struggle for the Continent
New France and the Iroquois Nation
France’s Colonial Empire
The Powerful Iroquois Confederacy
A French Map of North America, (Royalty-Free/CORBIS)
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6. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
The Struggle for the Continent
Anglo-French Conflicts
King George’s War
Fort Necessity
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7. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
The Struggle for the Continent
The Great War for the Empire
William Pitt Takes Command
Peace of Paris
British Resentment
Disastrous Consequences for Native Americans
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8. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
The New Imperialism
Burdens of Empire
Britain’s Staggering War Debt
George the Third
George Grenville
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9. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
The Thirteen Colonies in 1763
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10. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
The New Imperialism
The British and the Tribes
Failure of the Proclamation of 1763
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11. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
The New Imperialism
Battles over Trade and Taxes
Sugar, Stamp, and Currency Acts
Paxton Boys
Persistent Colonial Grievances
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12. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
Stirrings of Revolt
The Stamp Act Crisis
Effects of the Stamp Act
“Virginia Resolves”
Stamp Act Repealed
The Tory’s Day of Judgment (Library of Congress)
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13. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
Stirrings of Revolt
The Townshend Program
Mutiny Act
Townshend Duties
Nonimportation Agreement
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14. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
Stirrings of Revolt
The Boston Massacre
Rebellious Boston
“Committee of Correspondence”
The Boston Massacre (Library of Congress)
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15. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
Stirrings of Revolt
The Philosophy of Revolt
Sources of Revolutionary Ideology
“No Taxation without Representation”
“Virtual” and “Actual” Representation
Sovereignty Debated
"No Taxation without Representation!"
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16. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
Stirrings of Revolt
Sites of Resistance
Political Importance of Colonial Taverns
The Tea Excitement
The Tea Act
Daughters of Liberty
The Boston “Tea Party”
Consequences of the Coercive Acts
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17. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
Cooperation and War
New Sources of Authority
The First Continental Congress
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18. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
Cooperation and War
Lexington and Concord
“Minutemen”
General Thomas Gage
The War for Independence Begins
Recruiting Poster (Library of Congress)
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19. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, 1775
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20. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
America in the World: 
The First Global War
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21. Chapter Four: The Empire in Transition
Patterns of Popular Culture: 
Taverns in Revolutionary Massachusetts
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