To start off, acts as the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts to colonists, denied the colonists’ right to hold town meetings. The list goes on. Then, some would ask the question when will we reach their breaking point. “Will it be when we are totally disarmed and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?”. This quote by Patrick Henry, Virginia lawyer and former Governor of Virginia, speaks about the Intolerable Acts that allowed things like forcing colonists to house British soldiers in their house. Forcing people to house others and banning town meetings are
To start off, acts as the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts to colonists, denied the colonists’ right to hold town meetings. The list goes on. Then, some would ask the question when will we reach their breaking point. “Will it be when we are totally disarmed and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?”. This quote by Patrick Henry, Virginia lawyer and former Governor of Virginia, speaks about the Intolerable Acts that allowed things like forcing colonists to house British soldiers in their house. Forcing people to house others and banning town meetings are