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    The Split History of the American Revolution: A Perspectives Flip Book
    The Split History of the American Revolution: A Perspectives Flip Book
    The Split History of the American Revolution: A Perspectives Flip Book
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    The Split History of the American Revolution: A Perspectives Flip Book

    By Michael Burgan

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    People from Great Britain came to North America to start new lives in the 13 American colonies. In the beginning colonists accepted British rule without question. But by the mid-1700s, things were changing. Many colonists wanted the right to govern themselves. The British government felt as if the colonists were being ungrateful. By 1775 war between the two sides was inevitable.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateSep 1, 2012
    ISBN9780756546885
    The Split History of the American Revolution: A Perspectives Flip Book
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    Michael Burgan

    Michael Burgan has written more than 250 books for children and young adults. His specialty is history, with an emphasis on biography. A graduate of the University of Connecticut with a degree in history, Burgan is also a produced playwright and the editor of The Biographer’s Craft, the newsletter for Biographers International Organization. He first started writing for children as an editor at Weekly Reader before beginning his freelance career in 1994. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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      The Split History of the American Revolution - Michael Burgan

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE

      CHAPTER 1

      THE ROAD TO WAR

      CHAPTER 2

      A WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE

      CHAPTER 3

      DIFFICULT YEARS

      CHAPTER 4

      FINAL VICTORY

      INDEX

      BRITISH PERSPECTIVE

      CHAPTER 1

      DEALING WITH REBELS

      CHAPTER 2

      A DISTANT WAR

      CHAPTER 3

      SUCCESSES AND FAILURES

      CHAPTER 4

      THE WAR IS LOST

      INDEX

      SHARED RESOURCES

      SOURCE NOTES

      GLOSSARY

      INTERNET SITES

      TIMELINE

      SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

      FURTHER READING

      CHAPTER 1

      THE ROAD TO WAR

      It was August 14, 1765. Across Boston several thousand angry people poured out into the streets. Shouts of Liberty, property, and no stamps! filled the air. The marchers were furious about the Stamp Act, a new law that taxed paper goods and documents of all kinds. That night enraged protesters burned a straw effigy of Andrew Oliver, the unlucky local official picked to collect the taxes. The mob also tore down a building Oliver owned and then headed to his home and wrecked furniture there. More destruction followed in the days to come.

      Patriots protested the Stamp Act by demonstrating and hanging effigies.

      The Stamp Act of 1765 was part of a new policy for the 13 American colonies—one that drove many colonists to protest British rule. Leading the fight against the policy were American colonists known as Patriots. They challenged British efforts to raise taxes and squash the colonists’ freedoms. The Patriots’ ideas and actions put the colonies and Great Britain on the road to war.

      A CHANGING RELATIONSHIP

      Until the 1760s Parliament and the British crown paid little attention to the distant American colonies—and most Americans liked it that way. When Parliament did pass laws that affected the colonies, the colonists sometimes ignored them. For example, they often smuggled goods they wanted from other nations instead of buying them from Britain. Colonists also elected local officials with a large degree of independence from London.

      SONS OF LIBERTY

      The Boston protests were led by a group of Massachusetts merchants and craftsmen called the Sons of Liberty. The group formed in Boston during the summer of 1765 and met in secret at first. Soon they numbered 2,000 men, and their protests drew much attention to the Patriot cause. By the end of 1765, Sons of Liberty groups existed in every colony.

      But the relationship between the colonies and Great Britain grew tense after 1763. That year the British won the French and Indian War, in which Great Britain battled France for control of North America. Britain’s victory gave it control of Canada and the eastern half of what became the United States. The war had been costly, and British officials demanded that colonists help pay for the future defense of the colonies.

      In 1764 Parliament passed the American Revenue Act, known as the Sugar Act, which taxed goods including sugar, wine, coffee, and some types of cloth. The Sugar Act was the first law to raise new money in the colonies. Many merchants believed the new taxes would hurt their businesses.

      The Americans cherished the British tradition that gave people the right to approve the taxes they paid. They did this through the representatives they elected to Parliament or colonial legislatures. The colonies, however, had no

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