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  2. 4 days ago · The very next year saw the passage of what came to be called the Intolerable Acts, one of which closed the port of Boston entirely. The Boston Tea Party was a symbolic act, an example of how far Americans were willing to speak out for their freedom. Two short years later, Americans were willing to give their lives for their freedom, as shots ...

  3. 5 days ago · glory that has attended the memory of those illustrious personages, whose virtues and. abilities have extricated states from dangerous convulsions, and by securing happiness. to others have erected the most noble and durable monuments to their own fame. We therefore beseech your Majesty, that your royal authority and influence may.

  4. 5 days ago · The Virginia House of Burgesses adopted a Declaration of Rights and a constitution a month later. Virginia’s Declaration was the first and became a model for other states, and for Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence a few weeks later. Included in this excerpt is the beginning of the Virginia Constitution (adopted June 29 ...

  5. 2 days ago · The Pennsylvania Constitution, prefaced by a Preamble and Declaration of Rights, was framed by a specially elected convention that met from mid-July to the end of September 1776. Pennsylvania followed the Virginia model of declaring a bill of rights prior to articulating the kind of republican government that will be established.

  6. 5 days ago · Westford troops took part in the first acts of armed resistance to British aggression at Concord and Bunker Hill; and in the long contest which followed, the citizens were enthusiastic in the cause of civil liberty, and worked zealously and perseveringly to secure their grand object. This engraving by Amos Doolittle was made in 1775.

  7. 4 days ago · At the speed of British politics and trans-Atlantic communications, American colonists only learned of these punishments, which they labeled the “Intolerable Acts,” in May 1774.

  8. 5 days ago · In 1774, this was Britain's way of punishing Boston for the Boston Tea Party. Answer: Intolerable Acts These things happened when the Intolerable Acts were passed: the port of Boston was closed, the colonists could no longer hold town meetings more than once a year, officers were allowed to be tried in Britain instead of the colonies and a new ...

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