On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston<span> harbor and threw 342 chests of </span>tea<span> overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive </span>Acts<span> in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.</span>
Opec began an oil embargo of the united states
James Madison joined the Virginia Convention in 1776 and won approval for the "free exercise of religion". He also won another victory for religious freedom by persuading the Virginia assembly to pass a law that ended the Anglican Church's status as an official religion.
The Paris Peace talks began in May 1968 and concluded on January 27, 1973.
The negotiations started with the International Control Commission and was changed to International Commission of Control and Supervision to complete the accord. The Paris Peace Accords was a peace treaty titled Agreement on Ending War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam and signed by the United States, South Vietnam, Viet Cong and North Vietnam.
