Today in History: “Solemn League and Covenant” Published
Today in history, on June 5, 1774, the Boston committee of correspondence approved and published the “Solemn League and Covenant,” an agreement to boycott British goods. The covenant was in response to the Coercive Acts, a series of laws passed by Parliament in early...
Today in History: First Continental Congress Passes the Continental Association
Today in history, on October 20, 1774, the First Continental Congress adopted the Continental Association. This agreement put teeth into the Declaration of Colonial Rights the Congress adopted a week earlier by formalizing a coordinated economic embargo on British...
Today in History: Continental Congress Adopts Declaration of Colonial Rights
On this date in 1774, the First Continental Congress adopted the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress. This declaration of colonial rights was in response to the “Coercive Acts.” The document set the stage for further colonial action...