Additional Highlights:
• 1630s English migration which King Charles I caused by his unlawful ship tax, forced worship, and a bad economy
• The continued influence of the Bible, the Magna Carta, resistance to “taxation without representation”
• 1680s Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut • Indian and French-Indian Wars • Two Great Awakenings
• Revolutionary War: causes; first person accounts; Marquis de Lafayette; Rochambeau’s troops
• Life in South Britain: Journals of David Hickok and his daughter Hannah (Smith)
• U.S. Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, 13th–16th Amendments
• Advocates for girls’ education: Sarah Pierce and Emma Hart Willard
• Anti-Slavery effort: William Lloyd Garrison; Hannah Smith and daughters; La Amistad
• Abby Smith’s eight letters to her second cousin Mary Ann Eldred Austin
• A woman’s right to vote: Stanton, Anthony, Stone, Mott, Burr, Kelley
• Abby and Julia Smith of Glastonbury, CT: taxes, cows, and a woman’s right to vote
Book Features: 320 images (color interior); 1680s land deeds; detailed maps; 1769–1891 journals and letters;
original newspaper accounts and book excerpts; 330-year timeline and family trees; 14 pages of endnotes;
index with over 1,500 people, places, and events