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To: 11th_VA

The destruction of the tea absolutely enflamed Britain. They were out for blood after that.

1774 was a momentous year. Britain tightened the screws with the coercive acts, but they had the reverse effect. In Massachusetts, by the end of the year the British only controlled Boston, a tiny little peninsula. The rest of the colony basically declared independence from British rule. And in September, the General Court (the legislature) was no more. A provincial Congress was established and was essentially the governing body.

The Tea Party was, as John Adams called it an epocha in history.


4 posted on 12/16/2023 3:42:54 AM PST by cotton1706
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If coercion was Britain’s only choice, then the Colonists began to see that perhaps they, too, had just one choice: armed resistance, followed on July 4, 1776, by a declaration of independence.

5 posted on 12/16/2023 3:43:49 AM PST by 11th_VA (<>< Good News: Barbarians at not at the gate; Bad News: They’re in the city)
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