THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Either A or B
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Detailed explanation-1: -“The Rights of the Colonists” is a 1772 essay by Bostonian revolutionary leader Samuel Adams. It articulates the rights of the British colonists living in the “Thirteen Colonies” in what would later become the United States. Adams’s purpose was to identify the basic freedoms that the British government was violating.
Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Adams, “On American Independence” 1776 He declared, “Courage, then, my countrymen; our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.”
Detailed explanation-3: -The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.