American Tempest (47 page)

Ottawa Indians,
45
,
46

Paine, Robert Treat,
148
,
190
,
212–213

Paper money,
14–15
,
17

Parker, John,
209
,
210

Parliament

annulment of Massachusetts Charter,
185–186

application of Treason Act,
119–120

authority over colonies,
157–158

Boston Port Bill,
182

Coercive Acts,
186–187

colonial taxation and,
47
,
49–50
,
51
,
52

Declaratory Act,
93–94

judges' salaries and,
155

law against Land Bank,
17

regulation of colonial trade and,
10–11
,
197–198

representation in,
51–52
,
68–69

Stamp Act,
8
,
66–69
,
91–93

taxation on English,
46

Tea Act,
8
,
131

Townshend Acts,
8
,
101
,
130–131

Participants, in Boston Tea Party,
169–172
,
247–251

Paxton Boys,
45–46

Pelham, Henry,
143
,
144

Pennsylvania,
27
,
29
,
30
,
82
,
83
,
105
,
187
,
198
,
215
,
219
,
246

conflict with Indians,
45–46

voting requirements in,
236

Pennsylvania Chronicle
(newspaper),
103–105

Pennsylvania Gazette
(newspaper),
69

Pennsylvania Journal
(newspaper),
47

Percy, Hugh,
211

Peter Oliver's Origin & Progress of the American Rebellion: A Tory View
(Oliver),
239

Pitcairn, John,
209–210

Pitt, William,
33–34
,
35
,
91–92
,
131
,
134

Plan of Union,
30
,
38

Polly
(ship),
172

Pontiac (Chief),
45
,
46

Pope's Day, violence on,
87–88

Pownall, Thomas,
62–63
,
68
,
139
,
144

Prescott, Samuel,
205

Preston, Thomas,
140
,
141
,
142
,
148

Propaganda

on Battle of Lexington/Concord,
212

Sam Adams and,
41
,
42
,
98–99
,
122–123
,
133
,
155
,
174
,
183
,
212

Province House,
95
,
183
,
190

Provincial Congress, First (Massachusetts),
194–195
,
196

Provincial Congress, Second (Massachusetts),
202–203

Provincial Congress, Third (Massachusetts),
221

Public Advocate
(newspaper),
130

Publishers, Stamp Act and,
52
,
69
,
72

Quartering Act (1765),
53

Quebec Act (1774),
186–188
,
193

Quebec City,
34

Quincy, Dorothy,
205
,
207

Quincy, Edmund,
20

Quincy, Josiah,
20
,
144
,
148–149

Randolph, Peyton,
193
,
215

Rebel Cart,
224

Repeal Day,
94–95
,
98
,
106

Revere, Paul,
16
,
80

Boston Tea Party and,
170
,
171–172
,
249

engraving of Boston Massacre,
143
,
144

as messenger,
183
,
194
,
203–204
,
205

portrait of,
206

response to arrival of British troops,
115

Revolutionary War

early battles,
207
,
209–212
,
222
,
223–224

Hancock and,
178–180
,
196

results of,
236–237

taxes after,
231–232
,
235–236

Rex v. Preston,
148

Rhode Island,
22
,
33
,
82
,
112
,
129
,
192
,
232
,
246

Richard Clarke & Sons,
123

Richardson, Ebenezer,
136

Rights

of Americans following Revolutionary War,
236–237

natural,
47–48

The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
(Otis),
51

Robinson, John,
127

Romney
(man-of-war),
107
,
109
,
110

Rotch, Francis,
164–165

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
47–48
,
80

Rum, Molasses Act and,
22–23

Russell, John,
236–237

Rutledge, Andrew,
53

“Saints” of Boston,
22

Salem, customs inspections in,
35–36

Scollay, John,
65

Scott, James,
161

Seider, Christopher,
136–137

Selectmen, Boston,
16–17

Seven Years' War,
29–35

Shays, Daniel,
235

Shays's Rebellion,
235–236

Sherman, Roger,
227

Shirley, William,
20
,
62

A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre of Boston
(Bowdoin),
142–143

Signatories, to Declaration of Independence,
245–246

Slavery, First Provincial Congress and,
194–195

Slave trade,
15

Smuggling

after Cockle-Bernard scheme,
37

arms,
27
,
32–34
,
35

arrest of Hancock for,
118–119

molasses,
23
,
25–26
,
35–36
,
49

in response to Townshend Acts,
112

tea,
129

The Social Contract
(Rousseau),
47

Society for Encouraging Trade and Commerce within the Province of Massachusetts Bay,
50

Sons of Liberty,
72
,
99
,
120
,
172
,
202

demand for resignation of tea agents and,
160
,
162

leadership of,
159

Sam Adams and,
75
,
95
,
133
,
142

Stamp Act and,
86

weakening of support for,
147
,
151

South Carolina,
3
,
53
,
66
,
82
,
105
,
129
,
173
,
198
,
236
,
246

South End Gang,
166

Spain, war with,
19–20

Specie,
15

Stamp Act (1765),
8
,
50
,
52–53

amnesty for rioters,
96–97

boycott of British trade and,
85–86
,
88–89

intercolonial congress and,
82–84

pressure to repeal,
91–93

protests against,
66
,
68–72
,
75–79
,
86–89
,
91

Stamp Act Congress,
82–84

“State of the Rights of Colonists” (Adams),
156
,
157

Stirling, Alexander Lord,
226

“A Summary View of the Rights of British America” (Jefferson),
216

Taxes

after American Revolution,
231–232
,
235–236

American Revenue Act,
47
,
49–50
,
51
,
66

Boston merchants' attitude toward,
26–27

British decision to raise,
66–68

Grenville proposals for,
46–47

import duties,
46

imposed on English,
46

Molasses Act,
8
,
10
,
22–23

Stamp Act,
8
,
52–53

tea,
1–2
,
7–8
,
43
,
101
,
131
,
134–135
,
158

Townshend Acts,
101–102

Tea

ban on use of,
162–163

boycott of,
121–125

consumption of,
121
,
135–136
,
158

Dutch,
2
,
129

Labradore,
121–122
,
135

mobs attacking ships carrying,
174–175
(
see also
Boston Tea Party
)

propaganda against drinking,
122–123
,
174

smuggling of,
129

as symbol,
7–8
,
121

Tea Act (1773),
131
,
158
,
159–160

Tea agents, demand for resignation of,
160–162
,
172

Tea Party Patriots,
4
,
5
,
26
,
75
,
169
,
171
,
172
,
173
,
182
,
186
,
190
,
198
,
222
,
231
,
232
,
233
,
240

Tea Tax,
1–2
,
7–8
,
43
,
101
,
131
,
134–135
,
158
.
See also
Boston Tea Party

Temple, John,
35
,
37
,
38

Thomas & Elisha Hutchinson,
123
,
124

Thomas Hancock & Nephew,
64

Thomson, Charles,
228

Town House,
64
,
74
,
77
,
86
,
88
,
116
,
126
,
128
,
141
,
142
,
145
,
183

Townshend, Charles,
66
,
100–101

Townshend Acts (1767),
8
,
84
,
100–102

American opposition to,
103–105

failure to produce revenue,
128–129

repeal of,
105
,
130–131
,
147

Trade

British regulation of colonial,
9–11
,
197–198

commodity,
15

effect of Currency Act on,
50

following repeal of Townshend Acts,
147

international,
15

merchant banking and colonial,
14–15

post-Seven Years' War,
65–66

slave,
15

triangular,
15

whaling,
15–16

Treason Act/Treason Resolution (1535),
119–120

Triangular trade,
15

Trumball, Jonathan,
213