The Intolerable Acts were aimed at isolating Boston, the seat of the most radical anti-British sentiment, from the other colonies. Colonists responded to the Intolerable Acts with a show of unity, convening the First Continental Congress to discuss and negotiate a unified approach to the British.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
When Texas wanted to join the Union right after becoming independent in 1836, one of the reasons why the annexation was blocked was because Texas would have been a slave state. ... The people in Texas wanted slavery to continue, which would assist with the growing of cotton.
In an extraordinary late-night decision, the U.S. Supreme Court halted a recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court. ... The 2000 presidential election was the first in 112 years in which a president lost the popular vote but captured enough states to win the electoral vote.
