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 b...
15 Huhti 201820min
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. Mostly, this is an attempt to bail out the East India Company which had too ...
8 Huhti 201821min
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. New York then declares all the property owners living ...
1 Huhti 201820min
Episode 037: Committees of Correspondence and the Colony of Vandalia
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. Samuel A...
25 Maalis 201821min
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. It made profitable trade virtually impossible. The HMS Gaspe...
18 Maalis 201821min
Episode 035: Carolina Regulators and the Battle of Alamance
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 lo...
11 Maalis 201821min
Episode 034: Massacre Fallout and Townshend Acts Repealed
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 ...
4 Maalis 201822min
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. Fights break out regularly. The local courts would not punish locals an...
25 Helmi 201821min
