The Intolerable Acts!
National Archives Museum
Online
Monday, June 26, 2023 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Lt. Gen. Thomas Gage, Commander-in-Chief of His Royal Majesty’s forces in North America, explains what the Intolerable Acts meant for the American colonies. Samuel Adams reads one of his many letters after the passage of the Boston Port Act, which became one of the catalysts for the First Continental Congress.
This is part 1 of a 5-part series in the "Road to the Declaration: Year 1774."
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