Title: The Coercive (aka intolerable) Acts of 1774

Date: 2/13/24

Time: 1:30 – 2:30 PM

Presenter: Lee J. Wilwerding

Location: USCB Hilton Head Island, Room: 115

Cost: $10 for Library members and $12 for Non-members

This is a Semiquincentennial presentation. The British called them Coercive Acts and they were designed to punish Boston for their Tea party. The roots of the Acts began with the burning of HMS Gaspee in 1772 and led to the convening of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia.