The Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789, collection contains printed broadsides offering an account of America's struggle for nationhood.

INTOLERABLE ACTS AND THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party in 1774 by passing several laws that became known in America as the Intolerable Acts. One law closed Boston Harbor until Bostonians paid for the destroyed tea. Another law restricted the activities of the Massachusetts legislature and gave added powers to the post of governor of Massachusetts. Those ...

HCS Inc. - Information Databases - Freedom Documents DECLARATION AND RESOLVES OF THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS OCTOBER 14, 1777 Whereas, since the close of the last war, the British parliament, claiming a power, of right, to bind the people of America by statutes in all cases whatsoever, hath, in some acts, expressly imposed taxes on them, and in others, under various presences, but in fact for ...