Research Topics
Powers Conferred on Revenue Officers by Writs of Assistance.—See a writ in Macdonald, Source Book, p. 109.
The Acts of Parliament Respecting America.—Macdonald, pp. 117-146. Assign one to each student for report and comment.
Source Studies on the Stamp Act.—Hart, American History Told by Contemporaries, Vol. II, pp. 394-412.
Source Studies of the Townshend Acts.—Hart, Vol. II, pp. 413-433.
American Principles.—Prepare a table of them from the Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress and the Massachusetts Circular. Macdonald, pp. 136-146.
An English Historian's View of the Period.—Green, Short History of England, Chap. X.
English Policy Not Injurious to America.—Callender, Economic History, pp. 85-121.
A Review of English Policy.—Woodrow Wilson, History of the American People, Vol. II, pp. 129-170.
The Opening of the Revolution.—Elson, History of the United States, pp. 220-235.