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2nd June 1774: The British Parliament passes the Quartering Act, the fourth of the punitive laws passed in the wake of the Boston Tea Party

  • 2nd June 2021
  • Tagged as: America, Boston, Massachusetts, Thirteen Colonies, USA
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.historypod.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/06-02-The-Quartering-Act-1774.mp3

Just a few months later the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia, uniting the colonies in the face of increasingly oppressive British rule.

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26th May 1647: Alse Young of Windsor, Connecticut, is the first person to be executed for witchcraft in America

  • 26th May 2021
  • Tagged as: America, Colonies, Connecticut, Superstition, Thirteen Colonies, USA, Witch, Witchcraft

Young was executed in Hartford on 26th May 1647.

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16th May 1771: The Battle of Alamance ends the Regulator Movement in Provincial North Carolina

  • 16th May 2021
  • Tagged as: American Revolution, Battle of Alamance, Carolina, Governor Tryon, North Carolina, Thirteen Colonies, William Tryon
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.historypod.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/05-16-The-Battle-of-Alamance.mp3

The Battle of Alamance has since been seen by some as a precursor to the American Revolution.

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