The First of the Intolerable Acts, the Boston Port Act, is Passed by Congress
The Boston Port Act was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain March 31, 1774. The Boston Port Act was designed to punish the inhabitants …
America’s Founding
The Boston Tea Party: American Patriots Protest the Tea Tax by Throwing 342 Tea Chests into the Boston Harbor
On December 16, 1773, members of the Sons of Liberty, many dressed in disguise as Mohawks, boarded three British ships docked in Boston harbor and dumped …
The Tea Act of 1773: Catalyst for the Boston Tea Party
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American …
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre takes place in front of the Customs House on King Street where there were 4,000 British troops (following the Townshend Acts of …
The Townshend Acts Passed by British Parliament Imposing Several Taxes on the American Colonisits
Townshend Acts, (June 15–July 2, 1767), in U.S. colonial history, series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what …
The Sons of Liberty Erected a Liberty Pole in the commons of NYC Celebrating the Repeal of the Stamp Act.
Although little is ever spoken of the liberty pole today, at the time of the American War for Independence and decades prior, they were the …
Parliament Passes the ‘Declaratory Act’ to Declare Sovereignty Over Colonies in All Cases
Enacted on the same day that Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act by King George and British Parliament was merely positioning so that …
The Stamp Act was Passed by the British Parliament and Imposed on American Colonists
In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ …
The Currency Act of 1764 Forbids the Colonies to Print their Own Money
By the mid 1700’s Britain was at its height of power, but was also heavily in debt. Since the creation of the Bank of England, …
The Miraculous Story of ‘The Bulletproof President’, George Washington
The miraculous story of ‘The Bulletproof President’ once appeared in virtually every student text in America. At the Battle at the Monongahela, Washington and the …