In order to avoid any interference from British troops, the Second Convention of approximately 120 delegates met in Richmond, Virginia, from March 20 through March 27. Resenting this British interference with local government, the members of the House of Burgesses regrouped as a state convention. Patrick Henry is not speaking in the Virginia House of Burgesses in Williamsburg because it had been dissolved the year before by Royal Governor Dunmore. In this lesson you will explore a famous speech by Patrick Henry (1736–1799), member of the Second Virginia Convention. Britain had severely restricted Massachusetts through the Intolerable Acts towns were voting to boycott British goods, and British soldiers were becoming a common sight in the American Colonies. In 1775 unrest bubbled through the American Colonies.
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