1774 - Wikipedia November 10 – 1774 British general election: Voting for the House of Commons concludes in Great Britain, and Lord North retains the office of Prime Minister as his Tory coalition wins 343 of the 558 seats
Timeline of the Revolution - U. S. National Park Service March to June, 1774 The British Parliament passes the Coercive Acts, often called the Intolerable Acts in America Among other actions, Britain closes the port of Boston and requires British troops to be housed in taverns and vacant buildings The acts generate considerable sympathy for Massachusetts among other colonies
The Colonies Move Toward Open Rebellion, 1773-1774 After the Boston Massacre and the repeal of most of the Townshend Duties (the duty on tea remained in force), a period of relative quiet descended on the British North American colonies Even so, the crises of the past decade had created incompatible mindsets on opposite sides of the Atlantic
1774 Archives | HISTORY The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia in 1774, with 12 of the original 13 colonies in attendance, and agreed to a boycott of British goods
1774: The Year Between Resistance and Rebellion In July of 1774, as colonial resistance to British rule consumed the American colonies, the Virginia House of Burgesses asked thirty-one-year old Thomas Jefferson to draft instructions for the colony’s delegates to the First Continental Congress