Chapter I: Part II

The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775 14
The Grenville Program, 1763-1765 14
Western Lands Defense 15
A New Revenue Program 16
The Currency Act of 1764 17
Virginia and the Stamp Act, 1764 18
The Stamp Act Resolves, May 1765 20
The Stamp Act Crisis, 1765-1766 24
Repeal and the Declaratory Act, 1766 26
British Politics and the Townshend Act, 1766-1770 28
Virginia Politics, 1766-1768 29
The Townshend Act in Virginia, 1767-1771 30
The False Interlude, 1770-1773 31
The Road to Revolution, 1773-1774 32
The Boston Tea Party and the Intolerable Acts 33

PART III:

From Revolution to Independence 35
The First Virginia Convention 35
Virginia and the First Continental Congress 38
Great Britain Stiffens 39
War 40
Independence 43

PART IV:

The Commonwealth of Virginia 46
Declaration of Rights 46
Declaration of Independence 48
The Virginia Constitution, June 29, 1776 49
The British-Americans: The Virginia Loyalists 52
The War at Home, 1776-1780 53

PART V:

The War for Independence 55
Virginians and the Continental Army, 1775-1779 55
The Indian Wars 57
George Rogers Clark and the Winning of the West 58
The War and Eastern Virginia, 1776-1779 60
Black Virginians in the Revolution 60
The British Move South, 1780-1781 62
The Invasion of Virginia, 1781 63
Yorktown, September-October, 1781 66

BIBLIOGRAPHY 68