Colonial America Before the Revolution
Lectures in History
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🗓️ 13 January 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:55.5 | Next, on lectures in history, Lebanon Valley College teaches a class on the lead-up to the American Revolution. |
| 1:03.2 | He describes actions by the British government, such as the Stamp Act, and stationing British troops in Boston, that American colonists began to view as an overreach of power. |
| 1:12.6 | His class is about an hour and ten minutes. |
| 1:19.6 | All right, so today we're going to be talking about the imperial problem that faces Britain after the end of the war in 1763, and of course the coming of the revolution. |
| 1:31.3 | So if you have any questions, pipe up. |
| 1:35.3 | If not, I'll be asking you a few. |
| 1:38.3 | Now you remember last time, or last week anyway, we put a graph up here showing the result you'd probably get if you went around and asked everybody in the colonies at 25-year intervals, do you want to be independent of Britain? |
| 1:55.0 | And if you remember, the graph shot up kind of like this over the years. |
| 2:08.9 | In other words, as the colonies move along from Jamestown to 1776, |
| 2:15.2 | more and more people as time passes decide that they are able to handle this on their own. |
| 2:21.9 | They don't need to be ruled from Westminster. |
| 2:24.8 | And eventually, of course, enough of them decide that to produce a Declaration of Independence. |
| 2:31.0 | So that graph would make the revolution pretty easy to understand, right? It's just |
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