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The Coming of the American Revolution

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Partner:: Society of the Cincinnati
Location:: Prescott House
Boston, MA
Event Date:: 01.25.13
Speakers:: Dr. Robert J. Allison,; F. Gorham Brigham Jr.,; Bethe Hagopian
Tags:: Boston; Tea Party; revolutionary war; american revolution; american history; Colonial History

Summary: The people of Massachusetts had more power over their own government than anyone else in the British empire. These independent minded colonists increased in their feelings of bitterness and resentment as the crown raised taxes on American goods and sent soldiers to enforce the new policies. These building tensions eventually led to outward expressions of resistance. The Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party made the American Revolution inevitable.

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Dr. Robert J. Allison

Dr. Robert J. Allison is chairman of the history department of Suffolk University in Boston and teaches courses in American Constitutional history and the history of Boston at Harvard Extension School. His books include The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815 (2000); A Short History of Boston (2004); Stephen Decatur, American Naval Hero (2005); The Boston Massacre (2006); and The Boston Tea Party (2007). He was a consultant to the Commonwealth Museum at the State Archives in Boston, and he is on the board of overseers of the USS Constitution Museum in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He is vice president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, an elected fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and president of the South Boston Historical Society. He lives in South Boston and summers in Provincetown on Cape Cod. His newest book, A Short History of Cape Cod, is published by Commonwealth Editions.

F. Gorham Brigham Jr.

F. Gorham Brigham Jr. is the president of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati.

Bethe Hagopian

Bethe Hagopian is the president of the The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America.

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49 min 46 sec

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01.: Introduction

05 min 14 sec

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02.: Massachusetts Casts the American Revolution

01 min 58 sec

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03.: When to Begin: 1773

01 min 27 sec

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04.: Samuel Adams: The Committees of Correspondence

02 min 20 sec

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05.: Crown's Salary in Courts

03 min 30 sec

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06.: John Adams and the Impeachment of Judge Peter Oliver

01 min 33 sec

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07.: Thomas Hutchinson's Lecture

04 min 48 sec

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08.: Politics in Massachusetts

03 min 50 sec

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09.: Hutchinson Letters Affair

02 min 09 sec

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10.: Tea Act and the Boston Harbor 'Epic'

01 min 45 sec

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11.: The Governments of Massachusetts

02 min 09 sec

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12.: Continental Congress

02 min 17 sec

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13.: Continental Army: George Washington, Delegate

02 min 15 sec

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14.: Generals of the American War of Independence

02 min 38 sec

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15.: Battle of Bunker Hill

03 min 53 sec

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16.: Soldiers in the Continental Army

04 min 25 sec

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17.: Henry Knox and Nathanael Greene

01 min 29 sec

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18.: British Evacuate Boston

02 min 04 sec

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American Protests: The Boston Tea Party 'Epic'

01 min 56 sec

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Boston historian and American history professor Robert J. Allison looks at the events leading up to "the destruction of the tea" in Boston Harbor and how the iconic protest spurred the Revolutionary War.
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