1774. It was the first of the Coercive, or Intolerable Acts, five laws passed by the British Parliament to suppress resistance to its authority over the American colonies. The second act ...

By 1774 Adams believed that American colonists no longer had a choice. The Tea Act was yet another unjust attempt by England to make the colonies pay for its vast empire. If Governor Hutchinson ...

In the 1760s and 1770s, Britain levied taxes and duties on her American colonies that were met with ... In September 1774, the General had sent 260 men to capture the supply of gunpowder at ...

I feel myself unequal to this business” confessed John Adams, of the “grand scene open before me—a Congress.” In the fall of ...

American men suspected of being loyal to ... the federal legislature formed by the Thirteen Colonies in 1774, drew up a manifesto and had copies posted in Montreal and the city of Quebec.

As in the northern colonies, revolution came gradually to Virginia. In June 1774, Virginia’s House ... Its men and treasure were essential to the American struggle, and its central location ...

George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly. During both the first and now the second term of President Donald Trump, ...

With the shot heard around the world and launching the American Revolution fired in Massachusetts, this April will mark a major milestone for the Commonwealth. To honor the occasion, reenactors in ...