to have stamps (hence it was called the Stamp Act ... called them what they were: Intolerable Acts. In response to these acts, the various Committees of Correspondence banded together and planned ...

The Stamp Act met with unified colonial resistance ... sparking the Boston Tea Party of 1773. The Intolerable Acts of 1774 followed the Boston Tea Party and were meant to isolate Massachusetts ...

The punishment for that first Tea Party was a series of intrusive laws so oppressive that they were described as the “Intolerable Acts.” History, as they say, tends to repeat itself.

July 1: Cherokee attack the southern frontier. July 4: Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence. It’s worth noting that two other branches of the military will turn 250 this year as well. The ...

The excitement prevalent about a month ago relative to the stamp duties and penalties has subsided as the public have become familiar with the regulations prescribed by the law, and have received ...

Yet, two intolerable acts of Parliament so assaulted personal freedom that they broke the bonds with the mother country. The first was the Stamp Act of 1765, which required colonists to have ...

In 1765 came the Stamp Act. This was a tax on any printed ... In the spring of 1774, he passed the Intolerable Acts. It closed down Boston Harbor and limited self-governance in Massachusetts.

Yet, two intolerable acts of Parliament so assaulted personal freedom that they broke the bonds with the mother country. The first was the Stamp Act of 1765, which required colonists to have ...

Yet, two intolerable acts of Parliament so assaulted personal freedom that they broke the bonds with the mother country. The first was the Stamp Act of 1765, which required colonists to have ...

March 22: Stamp Act — Tax on paper goods and legal ... two of the so-called Intolerable Acts, further anger colonists. June 2: Quartering Act is amended. Sept. 5–Oct. 26: First Continental ...