Boston after the tea
Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in 1774. Boston Harbor closed. Town meetings were restricted. British troops could lodge in private homes. Colonists called the package the Intolerable Acts.
Colonies respond
Leaders in Virginia, South Carolina, and elsewhere sent rice and money to Boston. Committees of correspondence carried the news faster than royal governors could stop it.
Philadelphia, 1774
Delegates met in the First Continental Congress that September. They backed a boycott of British goods and prepared for defense. Within months shots would fire at Lexington and Concord.
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