We're going to have a bookend--a congress bookend lecture.

我们将要讲一个关键性会议
We're going to have worked our way to the Stamp Act congress

我们即将讲到《印花税法案》会议
by the end of this lecture which as you'll see over the course of the lecture

在这堂课结束时你们会发现
ends up being a step towards colonial unity.

我们离殖民地的团结又近了一步
But as I did mention in Thursday's lecture,

但是像我在周四课上讲过的
colonial unity was definitely not a foregone conclusion

在这段时间殖民地团结
in this time period--

肯定不在预料之内
and I mentioned a total of three attempts at colonial unity last week.

我上周提到过三个企图团结殖民地的尝试
One of them was the Dominion of New England,

其中一个是新英格兰联盟
which was not prompted by actions that the colonists took,

这并不是殖民者的行为所推动的
but the other two were prompted by the colonists

但是另外两个都是他们推动的
and they were both prompted by fears

而且都是被恐惧