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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Conventions Used in This Book
• What Not to Read
• Foolish Assumptions
• Beyond the Book
• Icons Used in This Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part 1: The Roots of Revolution
• Chapter 1: A Revolutionary Story
• Setting the Stage
• Divorcing the Mother Country
• War’s Over — Now Comes the Hard Part
• Getting Government Off the Ground
• The Good Stuff at the Back of the Book
• Chapter 2: Here Comes Europe
• Shaking Up the Old World
• Scoping Out the New World
• Settling In
• Chapter 3: “In God We Trust”
• Colonizing for God and Profit — But Not in That Order
• Stumbling into Jamestown
• Purifying and Separating
• Plowing into Plymouth
• “Like a City Upon a Hill”: The Puritans
• Dissidents, Catholics, and Quakers
• Chapter 4: Together and Apart
• A Clash of Cultures
• The Virginia Wars
• Dividing and Conquering
• Getting Together
• Meanwhile, in the Mother Country …
• Restoring and Rebelling in New England
• Revolting with Bacon
• Sizing up the Impacts
• Chapter 5: The Fight for a Continent
• Growing toward Revolution
• Doing Business with Mom
• Flexing Political Muscles
• Relaxing Religiously
• Dangling Bugs and Road-Show Religion
• Connecting the Snake
• Waging World Wars
• “I Heard the Bullets Whistle …”
• Part 2: The Fight for Independence
• Chapter 6: Causes and Effects
• Warring over the West
• Warm-Up Quarrels
• “The Minds and Hearts of the People”
• Cents and Sensitivity
• Sugar, Stamps, and Tea Make Trouble
• Chapter 7: From Rabble to Rebels
• Taking It to the Streets
• “I was soon on the ground among them”
• Tussling over Tea
• “Coercive” to You; “Intolerable” to Us
• Congressing
• “Let It Begin Here”
• Chapter 8: “We Hold These Truths”
• “The Whites of Their Eyes”
• Spreading the News — and the Fighting
• … And back in Boston
• Choosing to Fight, Choosing a Fighter
• A Royal Paine
• The Hated Hiring of Hessians
• Cutting the Cord
• Trying to Confederate
• Chapter 9: Lose Until You Win
• Getting into Shape
• “The Fate of Unborn Millions”
• Crossing the Delaware — Twice
• Fighting for Time
• The War Moves On
• “O God! It Is All Over!”
• Chapter 10: The War Abroad
• From a Brit’s Eye View
• “Farmer George” or “Royal Brute”
• Making Friends in France
• Britain Stands Alone
• The War Goes Global
• Puzzling out Peace
• Chapter 11: The War at Home
• Neighbor versus Neighbor
• A “Situation Truly Deplorable”
• “Tampering with the Slaves”
• “Remember the Ladies”
• “O, Strange Englishmen Kill Each Other”
• Money and Mutiny
• Why They Fought
• Part 3: Now What?
• Chapter 12: A Most Imperfect Union
• The General Goes Home
• Hard Money and Morris Notes
• A Toothless Government
• Moving toward a Fix
• Chapter 13: Who Were Those Guys?
• Defining the Founding Fathers
• Kicking the Slavery Issue down the Road
• Sorting out Signers, Framers, and Founders
• A Brief Look at Ten Top Founders
• Chapter 14: “We the People”
• Straggling into Philadelphia
• Tackling the Big Three
• Creating a New Kind of Congress
• Sidestepping Slavery
• Picking a President
• Cleaning up and Signing Off
• Chapter 15: Selling It
• Convincing Congress
• Waging a War of Words
• Convincing the Conventions
• Battling among the Heavyweights
• Setting up House (and Senate)
• Building a Bill of Rights
• Hail to the Chief
• Part 4: A Nation’s Baby Steps
• Chapter 16: Branching Out
• “I Walk on Untrodden Ground”
• Ordering the Courts
• Taxes and Logrolling
• “Daily Pitted … Like Two Cocks”
• Saying Goodbye — Again
• Chapter 17: The Toddler’s Transition
• Electing Adams
• Trying to Avoid Foreign Entanglements
• Aliens and Seditionists
• The Revolution of 1800
• Chapter 18: Aftermath
• So, How Big Was It?
• What Kind of Revolution Was It?
• Why Did It Work?
• What Can You Learn from It?
• Chapter 19: Some Books Worth Perusing
• Books to Explore
• Part 5: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 20: (At Least) Ten Things You Didn’t Know about the Founding Fathers
• Twinkle-Toes George
• Franklin’s “Deadly” Instrument
• TJ and the Bears
• Tom Paine’s Bones
• Sam Adams Really Made Beer (sort of)
• The Price on Hancock’s Head
• I’ll Trade You Six Hancocks for a Button
• Whining — or Wining — about the Flag
• A Justice in Jail
• The Little Guy on the Big Bill
• Chapter 21: Ten Unsung Heroes of the American Revolution
• Joseph Plumb Martin
• “Molly Pitcher”
• James Forten
• Daniel Morgan
• Roger Sherman
• Nancy Hart
• Jeremiah O’Brien
• Daniel Bissell
• Salem Poor
• Deborah Sampson
• Chapter 22: Ten Quotes from or about the American Revolution
• Or Else Just Give Us the Vote Now…
• And the Choices Are…
• Sorry to Disappoint You, But…
• Uh, Are You Sure, Your Majesty?
• Take My Advice and Scram
• “Except Us…”
• A Stimulated Simile
• Keeping One’s Feet Dry
• Looks Good So Far, But…
• A Term of Endurance
• Part 6: Appendixes
• Appendix A: The Declaration of Independence
• Appendix B: The Bill of Rights: Amendments 1–10 of the Constitution
• Appendix C: Key Events of the American Revolution
• Index
• About the Author
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• End User License Agreement