Summary of Nathaniel Philbrick's Bunker Hill

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was extremely nervous and excited to go to a predominantly white school. I struggled to make new friends because I was always thinking about how I looked, spoke, and acted.
#2 I was not alone in my struggle to understand my new classmates. I was extremely nervous about going to school, because I was not one of the popular girls, and I was sure that they would make fun of me. But I was also not aware of the racial divide in the school, and it troubled me.
#3 I was convinced that my skin color had something to do with the disconnect I felt with other people. I went on to study social psychology, and race and identity have always been central to my research.
#4 The fusiform face area, or FFA, is a region in the brain that helps us distinguish the familiar from the unfamiliar, and it also responds more strongly to faces that are the same race as the person doing the scanning.

Sujets

• Military
• United States

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669351573
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Nathaniel Philbrick's Bunker Hill
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In the middle of December 1773, in the largest meeting house in Boston, Josiah Quincy, a lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress, spoke about the three ships carrying East India tea. He warned that the country needed to think carefully about what they were doing.

#2

The last decade had been a time of increasing conflict and anxiety. Many regarded the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 as the beginning of all their problems, but it went back much further than that.

#3

The French and Indian War, which was fought on the colonies’ behalf, saddled Great Britain with a debt of about $22. 4 billion in today’s U. S. currency. The ministry decided that it was time the colonies began to help pay for their imperial support.

#4

The colonists were not willing to contribute to the upkeep of the British Empire, and instead focused on opposing any plan the British government put forward. When the old Puritan sense of certainty was combined with New England’s proven ability to fight, it was not surprising that Massachusetts opposed the Stamp Act.

#5

The American Customs Board was created to facilitate the collection of customs duties, which went toward paying the colonies’ collective tab back in Great Britain and also helped pay the salaries of the customs officers.

#6

The British Parliament passed a law in 1773 that offered tea to the American colonies at a reduced price of two shillings per pound, but included a tiny tax of three pence per pound, which was strongly objected to by the Boston patriots.

#7

The Boston Tea Party was a huge event that showed the whole world how Americans felt about the British government. It was a clear message that they were not happy with the taxes they were being charged, and they would not stand for it.

#8

Boston had always been a town on tiptoe. It was a small island surrounded by two endless wildernesses: the ocean to the east and the country to the west.

#9

Boston’s topography contributed to the city’s seemingly nonsensical pattern of streets. Rather than following any preconceived grid, the settlement’s original trails and cart paths had done their best to negotiate the many hills and hollows, cutting across the slopes at gradual angles to create a concave crescent of settlement within which more than fifty wharves and shipyards extended from the town’s eastern edge.

#10

That afternoon, the streets of Boston were flooded with people talking about the incident. A crowd gathered outside Malcom’s house, and he took great delight in taunting them, boasting that Governor Hutchinson would pay him a bounty of twenty pounds sterling for every Yankee he killed. His wife pleaded with the townspeople to leave them alone.

#11

In 1765, a mob of several hundred Bostonians attacked the home of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson, breaking windows and beating down doors. Hutchinson was also a historian, and numerous manuscript pages were strewn in the street.

#12

The crowd brought Malcom through the streets of Boston, stripped him of his clothes, and poured hot tar on his body. They then had him curse Governor Hutchinson, and have him say that he was an enemy to his country.

#13

The cart carried the two men through the streets of Boston, towards the Town House. They stopped at the Liberty Tree, where the first protests against the Stamp Act had taken place.

#14

The John Malcom incident created a problem for Joyce Junior. Despite having proclaimed himself the chairman of the tarring and feathering committee, he had had nothing to do with the beating. In an attempt to clear up any confusion, he issued another proclamation, disclaiming any association with the beating.

#15

Many Boston artists, including the famous painter John Singleton Copley, had an uneasy relationship with the city’s patriots because of their connections to the Loyalist family tree.

#16

Wheatley, a slave who was also a poet, became well known during the occupation of Boston by British troops. She wrote a letter to the Mohegan preacher Samson Occom explaining the contradiction between American liberty and American slavery.

#17

The American Patriots’ insistence on not compromising, and their harsh treatment of the British Tea Party, had more in common with the autocratic behavior of the British King George III than either side would have cared to admit.

#18

On May 13, 1774, a British sloop-of-war approached the lighthouse at the entrance to Boston Harbor. She was the Lively, twenty-eight days from England, with a notable passenger: Lieutenant General Thomas Gage, commander in chief of the military in North America and soon to be the new royal governor of Massachusetts.

#19

Gage was sent to London in 1774 to help resolve the conflict between Britain and the American colonies. He was attacked by the solicitor general, Alexander Wedderburn, for his deceitful behavior and ambitions to govern Boston.

#20

Gage, the British general, met with King George III and explained to him that only 4 regiments were needed to keep the peace in Boston. The king urged North to meet with Gage and hear his ideas regarding the way to compel Boston to comply with whatever was deemed necessary.

#21

When the Lively arrived in Boston, the port was closed off to ships requiring customs oversight. Only after the citizens had repented of their sins and paid for the destroyed tea would the king and his ministers allow prosperity to return.

#22

The Boston Port Act punished entire cities for the actions of a few. The patriots saw this as a violation of their rights, and responded by calling another town meeting.

#23

Samuel Adams, a man who had failed at every business venture he’d ever tried, had one extraordinary talent: he understood the future. He understood that America was being founded by immigrants who were escaping the tyrannical rule of the British government.

#24

The Boston Committee of Correspondence, made up of patriots, brought the fight for natural rights to every town in the colony. They published the Declaration of Rights, which articulated the basic rights of colonists.

#25

In 1772, Samuel Adams and the Committee of Correspondence were looking for ways to improve the economy in the colony. They decided to send a letter to the other colonies and the towns in Massachusetts, urging a boycott of British goods.

#26

On May 17, four days after his arrival at Castle Island, Lieutenant General Thomas Gage landed at Boston’s Long Wharf. Gage was met by a delegation that included the upper chamber of the General Court, known as His Majesty’s Council; the town selectmen; and a host of other officials.

#27

Hancock, Samuel Adams, and other wealthy individuals in Boston were the targets of envy by other wealthy individuals throughout New England.

#28

On May 25, the new royal governor, Thomas Gage, attended an Election Day sermon at the First Meeting in Boston.