"Art of Virtue." Franklin's idea of religion as the, 198.
Asia, relation between Europe and, 1, 7, 10-12, 16.
Assistants, Board of. _See_ Government, Massachusetts.
Association of the First Continental Congress, 247; creates the Loyalist party, 247, 248; why conservatives voted for, 250. _See_ Non-importation agreements.
Bernard, Gov. Francis, 203; advises remodeling colonial governments, 206; opposes Grenville's measures, 208, 218; on the Virginia Resolutions, 241.
Bible Commonwealth, ideal of a, 112 _ff._ _See_ Massachusetts Bay.
Board of Trade, created, 145; system for colonial control, 146; advises recall of charters, 146; decline of influence, 148; and the establishment of a civil list, 164; prepares scheme for colonial defense, 212.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 126, 171.
Boundaries, established by the Treaty of 1783, 271.
Bradstreet, Governor of Massachusetts Bay, 121.
Burgesses, the Virginia House of, 75 _ff._
Byrd, the first William, 73, 76, 175; the second William, 167; the third William, 170, 176, 185.
Carolinas, founding of the, 128 _ff._ _See_ North Carolina; South Carolina.
Charter, of Connecticut, 106; of Massachusetts Bay, 91, 96, 106; of Virginia, 55, 58.
Chateaubriand, epigram on the Revolution, 202.
Christmas festivals in Massachusetts, 116.
Church, the Reformation and the Catholic, 80 _ff._
Civic virtue, religion identified with, 194; Revolutionary philosophy influenced by classic ideal of, 239.
Clinton, Sir Henry, succeeds Howe, policy of raids, 261; expedition to South Carolina, 262; driven out of North Carolina, 268; orders Cornwallis to fortify Yorktown, 269.
Colonial control, English system of, established, 134, 145, 146; in the eighteenth century, 147; attitude of Walpole and Newcastle toward, 151; effect of Austrian war on, 152; frontier defense and, 154; Seven Years' War proves inadequacy of, 157; new policy of, 203; effect of Seven Years' War on, 214; opposition to Grenville's policy of, 215 _ff._; effect of tea episode on policy of, 233. _See_ Defense.
Colonial rights, Franklin on, 202; Bernard contrasts English and American ideas of, 203; Stamp Act raises question of, 214; the Townshend Acts and, 227; apparent settlement of dispute over, 231; revived by the Coercive Acts, 234; fundamental reasons for dispute over, 234; breach widened by every discussion of, 237; influence of classic ideals on patriot ideas of, 239; religious spirit characterizes patriot conception of, 240; class struggle in America accentuated by dispute over, 240; unfranchised classes active in the defense of, 244; effect of the Revolutionary war on the question of, 267.
