AMERICA HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS

was seen that the pamphlet allowed one to do things that were not possible in any other form

Bailyn

[STAMP ACT] That is represented and ruled them just as much as it did Britons at home

E. Countryman

the Colonies had no representatives in Parliament.

J. Lepore

a mark of the supremacy of Parliament

A. Farmer

habituating Americans to the payment of new tax

J. Ravoke

by drafts, from their militia or in any other way

Continental Congress

[BOSTON MASSACRE] the American cause now had martyrs

A. Farmer

after the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us

T. Jefferson

they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people

G. Washington

the success of the continental army...defied logic

M. Lee Lanning

delegates chose ultimately to avert their gaze

E. Countryman

half-starved limping government

G. Washington

hated by public creditors, insulted by soldiers & unsupported by citizens

B. Hawkins

Constitution 'a foetus of monarchy'

E. Randolph

George Washington contributed more... to the success of the War of Independence.

S. Bradford

'galvanised support for the movement toward independence'

A. Axelrod

Debate was over the nature of the punishment and its severity.

J. Reid

women could hardly have been passive observers

C. Berkin

Betrayed by the unfulfilled promises of the revolution

Raphael

no legislative authority, more resembling a consultative body than a Congress.

M. Lee Lanning

"Problems of trade could never be solved... till [the] Articles [were] re-drafted.

H. Brogan