USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Patrick Henry responded to the Stamp Act with a series of resolutions introduced to the Virginia legislature in a speech. The resolves, adopted by the Virginia legislature, were soon published in other colonies, and helped to articulate America’s stance against taxation without representation under the British Crown.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Patrick Henry opposed the Stamp Act because he believed it infringed on colonists’ inherent liberties as subjects of the English empire.

Detailed explanation-4: -Patrick Henry, who was a new member to the House of Burgesses undertook a radical move against the authority of Parliament.

Detailed explanation-5: -Henry served on the committee in the Virginia Convention of 1776 that drafted the first constitution for the state. He was elected governor the same year and was reelected in 1777 and 1778 for one-year terms, thereby serving continuously as long as the new constitution permitted.