Outraged by the Intolerable Acts, the Colonies decided to meet in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, for the first ...
Unable to make their voices heard in the halls of government, a group of American patriots dumped tea in Boston Harbor. The punishment for that first Tea Party was a series of intrusive laws so ...
The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts (called the Coercive Acts in England), which aimed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston ...
Matthew Spalding is the Kirby professor in constitutional government and dean of the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College and oversees the Allan P. Kirby Jr. Center for ...
Sept. 5 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1774, the first Continental Congress convened in secret in Philadelphia, calling for a boycott of British goods and writing a petition to King George III to ...
The history of the United States begins with a rebellion against unfair taxation. In 1767, a distant and unresponsive government in London, led by an out-of-touch leader in King George III, ...
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