The Boston Tea Party
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. In the seven years since the end of the French and Indian War, relations between Britain and her colonies had gone through a few cycles of depressing antagonism, neither side really understanding what the other was up to or why. But now that the fervor over the Townshend Acts was […]
The Townshend Act
Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So we ended last time with the demise of the Stamp Act, which had done so little to raise revenue and so much to infuriate the colonies. But the British Government’s pullback from the Stamp Act had been a retreat, not a surrender. And this week we will walk through […]