army who finds himself tatian at this sort of sleepy little post in charleston

army who finds himself tatian at this sort of sleepy little post in charleston harbor. it was really kind of the cushy army post before the civil war where they send officers to while away their time, going to bar-b-q's. and very quickly however, he is a defender of an unfolding national crisis. the south -- the southern states begin to succeed and december of 1860, a month or so after lincoln's election as president. .. >> these guyings were in a brass band, and they quickly realized they're in the middle of an unfolding crisis. south carolina is sort of the center of the white hop succession fever, and charleston is the center of that. southern militia starts this little fort. anderson realizes this fort is dispensable, should it come to that, as a public park, and they're looking out at the troops that are massing all around them. they feel as written in a letter, he feels like a sheep tied up watching the butcher sharpen his knife. not a very pleasant image, and so he does something very bold. he ignores his orders from the war department or lack of definitive order

americans had no representation in parliament and that for parliament to tax them without such rep as an tatian was a violation of the british come to to shame. they were under these mobs, under the secret pay at the merchants and newspaper publishers. addison out of sunday's monster terry's britain's waterfront. they attacked the tax collectors, burned their homes, prevented ships from landing. gradually they closed the waterfront in close to boston to almost all british ships. adams then wrote to political leaders and other coastal cities. he is absolutely filled with a sense of power and wanted to gain more. he convinced political leaders in other cities to follow suit. he soon sent harbor fronts up and down the coast over and writes and gained a national reputation as a great revolutionary leader. merchants meanwhile stop importing british good. within months, british manufactures and ask voters absorbed huge financial losses. british trade fell by 50% in the british merchants, british exporters demanded that parliament repealed the stamp tax in america to restore trade relations. in 1765,