Book Review

“Give Me Liberty: An American History” is the Eric Foner's luminous fusion of American history and is a brief, obvious and dense context of the American history. For the U.S. survey course, it can be regarded as the perfect teaching instrument. The book presents the measures of American history in a lively sequential description that acquaint students with the knowledge to understand the American History and its significance and is completely unusual from the textbooks that devastate beginning students with encyclopaedic aspect. The textbook works very well for the students of History. It gives the historical description of the first European excursions to the American continent to the end of the Civil War and with highlighting on the development of ideas of independence and how those ideas manifested themselves in the actions and traditions of the hatchling country, takes the reader through the whole American history.

Discussion

Grenville and the Sugar Act

Parliament greatly wanted to replenish the Treasury since the Indian and French War had left England with a blank notecase. British subjects were heavily taxed by the Parliament, particularly the colonists who were led by Grenville. His administration approved the Sugar Act in 1764, which positioned a tax on the import of sugar from the West Indies and this act presented an important alteration in strategy while earlier majestic taxes were levied to bear home British officials. (Maestro & Betsy, Pp. 67)

The Stamp Act

The Colonist seriously criticized the Stamp Act of 1765. This kind of tax needed tangible things to have an authorized stamp screening that the possessor had paid the tax and if someone botched to pay the tax, he would be charged by the vice-admiralty judges without a prove by judges. The Stamp Act was approved to pay for the augmented British crowd existence in the colonies and ...