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The River of Pearls Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution held a Boston Tea Party at the Mississippi Agriculture Museum in Jackson last weekend.
In the wake of the Boston Tea Party in 1773, the British parliament responded by passing a series of laws known in England as the Coercive Acts; better known in the U.S. as the Intolerable Acts. Among...
Kevin P. Coughlin/ Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo via AP We mentioned this bill in an earlier story today, but it really deserves its own focus and attention. It’s quite surprising that it hasn’t gotten more attention considering what it’s actually advocating. The bill A416, obviously meant to deal with the Wuhan virus, allows for the detention of any carrier of a disease (or contacts that person has had) to be detained in a medical facility or “other appropriate facility or premises designated by the governor.” The governor or his designee can simply have anyone locked up under...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZC4-5289) Top Questions What were the Intolerable Acts of 1774? In response to colonial resistance to British rule during the winter of 1773–74, Parliament was determined to reassert its authority in America and passed four acts that were known as the Coercive Acts in Britain but were labeled the Intolerable Acts by the colonists. Because Boston had been the center of resistance, the acts targeted Boston and Massachusetts in particular. What four acts made up the Intolerable Acts? The Coercive Acts, which were called the Intolerable Acts...