The British soldiers (redcoats) arrive in Boston under martial law to punish and control the defiant Americans in Boston who deemed the taxes implemented as …
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 …
Benjamin Franklin on the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, written November 29, 1766: “I think the best way of doing good to …
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 …
Enacted on the same day that Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act by King George and British Parliament was merely positioning so that …
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’ …
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, …
