Chapter 16

Writs of Assistance Issued--Excitement in Boston--The Stamp Act--Protests against Taxation Without Representation--Massachusetts Appoints a Committee of Correspondence--Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry--Henry's Celebrated Resolutions--His Warning to King George--Growing Agitation in the Colonies--The Stamp Act Repealed--Parliament Levies Duties on Tea and Other Imports to America--Lord North's Choice of Infamy--Measures of Resistance in America--The Massachusetts Circular Letter--British Troops in Boston--The Boston Massacre--Burning of the Gaspee--North Carolina "Regulators"--The Boston Tea Party--The Boston Port Bill--The First Continental Congress--A Declaration of Rights--"Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" 122