... and dump them overboard. That Sunday night, December 16th, 1773, the plan was put into action. It worked just as they had wanted it to. The near hundred men, all dressed as Indians, boarded the ship and with their tomahawks, they broke the chests of tea open and succeeded in dumping 342 chests of ... most, they were known as the Intolerable Acts. There were five Intolerable Acts all together. The first of these was called the Boston Port Act. This law closed down the Boston port until the East India Company was reimbursed for the tea that was ruined in the Boston Harbor. This upset the pe...

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... born in 1736 in Hanover County, Virginia. He went to public school for a short time but was taught by his father who was well educated. Henry was a storekeeper then studied law and recieved his license to practice in 1760. In 1763 Henry won himself fame in Virginia in a noted lawsuite called the Parsons' Cause. In 1764 Henry was elected to the ... in 1788. His fame as a brilliant speaker gained him many clients and he soon became a successful criminal lawyer. Henry's law fees helped him buy land and in 1794 he retired to his Red Hills Estate near Appomattox, Virginia. During the next fi...

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Between the years 1607 and 1766 the colonies were governed by British law, to the colonist there were many flaws in the rule but one which could not be overlooked would be the absence of "unalienable rights". The colonists grew tired ... 1775 they began their fight towards independence, in an event we now refer to as the American Revolution. When the path grew clearer that independence would be a definite in the near future the colonists were left with one issue, a new form a government. The period between 1775 and 1791 became a period of trial and error towards the new government, which wou...

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John Locke was born on August 29, 1632, near Bristol, England. His father was a successful small landowner and attorney in western England. Locke was growing up during the English Civil War, in which Parliamentary forces battled King Charles I over ... 1794) black slavery overseas. They demanded civil equality for all, denying the claims of privileged groups, localities, or religions to special treatment and requiring the equality of all citizens before law. These concepts originated from the philosophies of John Locke. John Locke's works including the Two Treatises of Government was a wrin...

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