This act was passed to assert the authority of the British government to tax its subjects in North Americ after it repealed the much-hated Stamp Act...
General Thomas Gage, Commander-in-Chief of all British forces in North America, writes to acting Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson concerning...
In March 1775, the Patriot legislature of Virginia met for the second time in St. John's Episcopal Church in Richmond. Patrick Henry is said to have...
To protest the British crown's Townshend Act, which placed taxes on a variety of goods, Boston merchants and traders made an agreement not to import...
In defiance of Lord Dunmore, royal governor of Virginia, dissolving the House of Burgesses for showing sympathy to Boston after its port was blockaded...
The New York City branch of the Sons of Liberty, a secret society dedicated to resisting oppressive British measures in the colonies, published this...
Parliament passed this act as an amendment to the Mutiny Act of 1765; unlike the Quartering Act of 1774, this act forbids soldiers to be billeted in...