History of the United States I / Unit 5 USH1 0611 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act Congress
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The idea
Patrick Henry introduced resolutions in the House of Burgesses in language so forceful that some conservative Virginians accused him of treason.
In practice
The Stamp Act Congress of autumn seventeen sixty-five, the first unified colonial congress, with nine legislatures represented.
Where people slip
It produced the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, on taxation without representation and trials without juries.
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