American Revolution Podcast
American Revolution Podcast explores the events of the American Revolution, from beginning to end. It publishes weekly. Be sure to check out the related blog for access to pictures, maps, and links to more useful information on each week's episode. https://blog.amrevpodcast.com
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Episode 051: The Portsmouth Alarm
By the end of 1774 Britain had banned all munitions imports to the colonies. After fearing that the British Navy might seize munitions at Fort William and Mary in New Hampshire. Paul Revere rides from Boston to alert the local militia.
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Episode 050: Britain Prepares for War
In late 1774, Prime Minister North calls for early elections. This results in a solid majority in favor of getting tough on the colonies.
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Episode 049: The Provincial Congress of Massach...
Gen. Gage retreats with his regulars into Boston in the summer of 1774. Patriots take control of all of the rest of Massachusetts.
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Episode 048: The First Continental Congress
Parliament closed the Port of Boston following the Boston Tea Party. In response, colonial leaders met in Philadelphia in a "Grand Congress."
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Episode 047: The Suffolk Resolves
Gov. Gage decides he does not have a large enough army to control the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Episode 046: The Powder Alarm
On September 1, 1774, Gen. Gage sends a regiment to secure gunpowder stored at a powder house several miles from Boston.
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Episode 045: Governing from Salem
Governor Gage moves the colonial government to Salem and begins enforcing his policy of firmness, ignoring colonial protests and implementing the Coercive Acts.
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Episode 044: Lord Dunmore's War
In late 1774 Governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore leads militia into Western Virginia. He hopes to stop local tribes who are attacking colonists.
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Episode 043: Colonies React to the Coercive Acts
Gen. Gage travels to Boston to replace Hutchinson as the new Governor of Massachusetts.
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Episode 042: The Coercive Acts
In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament gets tough by passing several acts designed to punish Massachusetts.
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Episode 041: Tea Party Aftermath
Despite the open destruction of private property, the colonies generally seem to approve of Boston's reaction to the tea ships.
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Episode 040: The Boston Tea Party
Parliament tries to win the fight over tariffs by greatly reducing the cost of tea, and maintaining only a nominal three pence per pound tax on tea. Officials hope the lower prices will end the tea boycott.
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Episode 039: The Politics of Tea
After several years of calm in the colonies, Parliament changes the way tea is distributed and taxed throughout the Empire.
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Episode 038: The Green Mountain Boys
After New Hampshire issues thousands of land grants in a disputed region, New York gets the King to declare the land part of the New York colony.
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Episode 037: Committees of Correspondence and t...
As events quiet down after 1770, London tries to make many minor behind the scenes changes to the colonial power structure, making it harder for the colonies to resist the next confrontation.
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Episode 036: Sinking the HMS Gaspee
Rhode Island colonists, like just about all other colonists, greatly resented the new tough enforcement of trade laws by British officials.
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Episode 035: Carolina Regulators and the Battle...
In both North and South Carolina, colonists on the western frontier run into conflicts with the east coast dominated government. Westerners in each state form Regulator movements to enforce the law locally as they see fit.
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Episode 034: Massacre Fallout and Townshend Act...
After British Regulars kill five colonists and injure others at what becomes known as the Boston Massacre, local radicals force the government to relocate the soldiers to Castle Island, out in Boston Harbor.
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Episode 033: The Boston Massacre
Over the winter of 1769-70, locals in Boston make life as uncomfortable as possible for the British Regulars occupying the city.
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Episode 032: The Battle of Golden Hill
During the winter of 1769-70, New Yorkers fight with British Regulars.
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Episode 031: Wilkes and Liberty & Tar and Feathers
Radical John Wilkes returns from France in 1768 to face the charges for seditious libel.
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Episode 030: The Occupation of Boston
With officials in Boston unable to control the people and enforce the law, Secretary of State Hillsborough decides enough is enough and orders four regiments of British regulars to occupy the town.
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Episode 029: The Liberty Riot
The American Board of Customs arrives in Boston in 1767 ready to enforce the new Townshend duties.
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Episode 028: Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Following passage of the Towshend Acts in 1767, the colonists are unsure how to respond, until John Dickenson writes his letters..
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Episode 027: Prime Minister Pitt Falls from Power
Prime Minister William Pitt's illness prevents him from running his administration. The Duke of Grafton becomes acting Prime Minister for over a year and eventually take the office officially when Pitt resigns in 1768.
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