So for the last six weeks in this class, we have been examining the critical fire of the imperial crisis we have been looking at the debates between British Imperial officials an american wig patriots. And that debates has really in many ways come down to one issue which is broadly speaking, what is the british constitution and how does it define relations between the mother country and her colonies. And more specifically, the real question is, what is the political constitutional relationship between the power on authority of the British Parliament and americas colonial legislators . And over the course of about 12 years, between 1764 and 1776, the British Parliament passed a series of laws. It 1764, it began with the sugar act and then a year later the stamp act and at 1767, the townsend act and then tea act and the prohibit tory act in 1775. But standing behind all of these acts of british legislation is one overarching piece of legislation, which i think is the driving force behind
About the preamble of the declaration of independence. He views each line and explores what the Founding Fathers may have intended by their word choices. Good afternoon, everybody. So for the last six weeks in this class weve been examining the political thought of the imperial crisis. That is weve been looking at the debates between British Imperial officials and american wig patriots and that debate has in many ways come down to one issue which is broadly speaking, what is the british constitution and how does it define relations between the mother country and her colonies. And more specifically even, the real question is what is the political constitutional relationship between the power and the authority of the British Parliament and americas colonial legislatures. And over the course of about 12 years, between 1764 and 1776, the Britain Parliament passed a series of laws. In 1764 it began with the sugar act and then a year later the stamp act and then in 176768, the townsend act a
Examining the political thought of the imperial crisis. That is, weve been looking at the debates between British Imperial officials and american wig patriots. That debate has really in many ways come down to one issue, which is, broadly speaking, what is the british constitution and how does it define relations between the mother country and her colonies . More specifically even, the real question is, what is the political constitutional relationship between the power and the authority of the British Parliament and americas colonial legislators . Over the course of about 12 years, between 1764 and 1776, the British Parliament passed a series of laws. In 1764, it began with the sugar act. A year later, the stamp act. Then in 1767, the towns and acts. Then the tea act and then the coercive act. In 1775, the prohibit tory act. But standing behind all of these acts of british legislation was one overarching piece of legislation, which i think was the driving force behind all of these part
On his undergraduate course on the topic of ordinary lives in the American Revolution. And his book, stolen five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their journey home, which tells the true story of five boys kidnapped in the north and sold into slavery in the deep south and that during attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, is being published by Simon Schuster in october. Thank you once again for joining us this evening, and without any further ado, please join me in welcoming dr. Rick bell. [applause] dr. Bell thanks to heather, thanks to cspan for covering this. Those of you who might have been to the Smithsonian Associates before and heard me give other programs wont be surprised to hear my strange accent, which is not exactly a maryland natives accent. I was raised in england yet find myself teaching about the American Revolution as part of my job, which let me tell you is a blessing and a curse, an undergraduate classroom to teach with an accent like this. Im very
Joining us my name is gavin and the director of programs exhibitions and partnerships for the National Historic society. I would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending a Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the size of our virtual crowd in the geographic diversity of the people who signed up, im sure there are some people who are in for the first time. If youre not familiar with nhs we are the oldest Historical Society in america. Founded in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our nation and States History the past 229 years. In these days of social distancing we are taking to hosting Virtual Events we have Online Events for every week through july. Next week we will be hosting a virtual tour the tour is titled misled and a look at historic a a these include mimic houses suspicious ain a marker that denotes the side of the famous vikings bar if youd like to join the tou