Posted By nedryun on August 30, 2011

Ned Ryun continues his series, “Days of Revolution” with Episode 21. In this episode, Ned chronicles one of the first major efforts of resistance against the Townshend Acts: the Massachusetts Circular Letter. Ned unpacks Samuel Adams’ letter and chronicles its monumental implications, including such events as:

• Parliament’s response
• Dissolution of the Massachusetts House
• Arrest of John Hancock
• Boston riots
• Occupation of Boston

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Posted By nedryun on August 16, 2011

Ned Ryun continues his series, “Days of Revolution” with episode 20. In this episode, Ned expounds on the Townshend Acts, a series of taxes and laws passed by Parliament throughout 1767 and 1768. In addition, he walks you through some of the largest power grabs that Parliament had yet attempted:

• The Townshend Acts
• The Revenue Act
• The Indemnity Act
• The Vice Admiralty Court Act

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Posted By nedryun on April 25, 2011

Ned Ryun continues his series, “Days of Revolution” with episode 19.

In this episode Ned discusses:

• King George III, his life and his role in the American Revolution.

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Posted By nedryun on April 12, 2011

Ned Ryun continues his series, “Days of Revolution” with episode 18, “The Colonies Unite.”

In this episode Ned discusses:

• The Stamp Act Congress

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Posted By nedryun on March 31, 2011

Ned Ryun continues his series, “Days of Revolution.” Listen to Episode 17, “A Violent Backlash”

In this episode Ned discusses:

• The violent reaction to the Stamp Act in the colonies
• The hanging in effigy of Andrew Oliver, royal stamp agent, in Boston
• The ransacking of Thomas Hutchinson’s home
• Samuel Adams condemns the violence
• The New York Sons of Liberty organize public demonstrations in New York City
• Richard Henry Lee, future signer of the Declaration of Independence, leads a protest in Virginia
• The colonies unite even further in their resistance to the tyranny of Parliament and the Crown

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Posted By nedryun on February 1, 2011

Ned Ryun Continues His Series, “Days of Revolution.” Listen to Episode 16, “The Sons of Liberty.”

In this episode:

• The Sons of Liberty formed to fight the abuses of The Stamp Act.
• The original groups formed in places like Boston and New York City.
• The growth, acts and networks of The Sons of Liberty.
• The response of various authorities to The Sons of Liberty.
• The lasting effects of The Sons of Liberty and their influence on The Revolutionary War.

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Posted By nedryun on January 25, 2011

Ned Ryun Continues His Series, “Days of Revolution.” Listen to Episode 15, “Patrick Henry and the Virginia Resolves.”

In this episode:

• The first legislative response to the Stamp Act proposed by Patrick Henry and called the Virginia Resolves.
• The Virginia Resolves assert that the colonists have the same rights as Englishmen.
• Henry argues voraciously for its passage and it later passes the Virginia House of Burgesses 20-19.
• The Virginia Resolves influence other colonists and help place revolution in the minds of the colonists.

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Posted By nedryun on January 12, 2011

Ned Ryun Continues His Series, “Days of Revolution.” Listen to Episode 14, “An Army Amongst Us.”

In this episode:

• Questions regarding how to protect the western frontier continue.
• Tensions among the colonists continue as The Quartering Act is passed by parliament.
• The colonists feel reprisal from British troops living among them.
• The colonists resist funding the quartering of troops without representation.
• The Quartering Act’s legacy is founding among America’s founding documents, such as the Declaration of Independence, and also is partially the basis for the Third and Second Amendments.

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Posted By nedryun on December 14, 2010

Ned Ryun Continues His Series, “Days of Revolution.” Listen to Episode 13, “The Stamp Act and the Dawn of Popular Resistance.”

In this episode:

• The high price tag of defending western frontiers and public debt leads British’s Parliament to pass The Stamp Act of 1765.
• The act begins the first unified resistance from the colonies against the crown.
• The act is enforced through Admiralty Courts.
• Samuel Adams leads resistance in Massachusetts.
• Committees of Correspondence help the colonies produce a uniform response.
• The resistance has only begun, culminating in a war and a new nation.

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Posted By nedryun on November 17, 2010

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