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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...
On Sept. 9, 1774, delegates at the Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Convention of the Committees of Correspondence approved what became known as the Suffolk Resolves. This declaration against the “Coercive Acts” called for non-cooperation with British...
