THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Colonists
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Patriots
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Friends
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Revolutionaries
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1764 Henry was elected to the House of Burgesses, the lower house of the Virginia legislature, where he supported frontier interests against the aristocracy. His speech against the Stamp Act in 1765 asserted the rights of the colonies to make their own laws. (“If this be treason, make the most of it.”)
Detailed explanation-2: -One of these travelers would be a young Thomas Jefferson traveling to William and Mary for college. During Henry’s tenure at the Hanover Tavern, he and Jefferson became close friends.
Detailed explanation-3: -A participant in virtually every aspect of the founding of America, Patrick Henry leveraged his eloquence as a Patriot and became the Revolution’s most renowned orator.
Detailed explanation-4: -A gifted orator and major figure in the American Revolution, his rousing speeches-which included a 1775 speech to the Virginia legislature in which he famously declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”-fired up America’s fight for independence.