American Revolution Re-Decisions

CONTEXT: Locke, and the Right of Rebellion

COMPLAINTS

DECISION: Violating the Proclamation of 1763

DECISION: Repeal the Stamp Tax? (1766)

DECISION: Prosecuting the "Massacrers" (1770)

DECISION: Dumping the Tea (1773)

INDEPENDENCE: Podcast

DECISION: Choosing a Commander in Chief (1775)

DECISION: Expelling Howe from Boston (1776)

DECISION: Whig or Tory? (1776)

DECISION: Choosing an Author to Draft the Declaration (1776)

WAR

DECISION: Long Island (1776)

DECISION: Facing mass termination of enlistments (December, 1776)

DECISION: Choosing a National Seal (1776-82)

DECISION: Facing desertions at Valley Forge (1777)

DECISION: What to do with Major John Andre (1780)

DECISION: How to respond to General Cornwallis ghosting the surrender ceremony at Yorktown (1781)

AFTERMATH

DECISION: Responding to the proposal to become King (1783)

DECISION: Responding to the Whiskey Rebellion (1794)

DECISION: Washington Addresses Three Controversies (1796)

Academic Debates

• Sons of Liberty: Were they Terrorists?

• Were the British taxes unreasonable?

• MVP: Washington or Franklin?

• Did Benedict Arnold have any legit complaints?