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This is the day that Patrick Henry was born.
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This is the date that Patrick Henry and his brother, William Henry, opened there own store. It promptly failed but from this Patrick Henry was able to determine what he wanted to be.
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This is the day that Patrick got married to his first wife, Sarah Shelton.
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This is the date that the name Patrick Hnery would become famous. Parson's Cause was the debate at whether the people or the crown would set the price that the tobbaco farmers had to pay to te clergy. Here he argued that a king who would go against his peoples wishes is nobody but a tyrant.
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This is when the Stamp Act is officially passed. This is important because Patrick Henry fiercely opposed any 'taxation without representation' and organized protests against this.
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This is when Patrick Henry was elected into the House of Burgesses and was what started his carrer as a politician. While in the House of Burgesses he was able to make some reforms and become known as 'Radical'
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This is when the Stamp Act was repealed. This is a major event since people were beginning to take on the ideal of 'no taxation without representation.'
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This is the date that Patrick Henry was officially called a lawyer. While a lawyer people recognized that Patrick Henry was very determined and a very skilled speaker.
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This is the date that, along with Thomas Jefferson and Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry set-up some resolutions for the government of America during the now inevitable war.
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This is the date that the Boston Tea Party occured. Though Patrick Henry was not directly involved he did fast along with everybody else at the House of Burgesses in honor of the event.
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This is the date that Patrick Henry is elected to the Continental Congress Board. This is where he can speak about his ideas of America becoming an independent country.
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This is the date that the First Continental Congress was held. It is here that Patrick Henry and several others talked of the idea of America becoming an independent country.
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This is the date that Patrick Henry made his famous speech that said that 'taxation without representation is tyranny.' He is reported saying "Give me liberty or give me death!"
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This was the Second Continental Congress where delegates from all of the colonies met and started drafting the Declaration of Independence.
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This is the day that Patrick Henry was made the colonel of the first Virginian Army. He was te leader of about 1000 men.
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This is the date where Patrick Henry was called the Virginian Militia Leader. He would organize the defenses that Virginia nedded and that the towns in Virginia so desperately required.
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On this day both Patrick Henry and James Madison were elected as part of the founding trustees of the Hampden-Sydney College. Patrick worked at and encouraged the college until his death in 1799.
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This is the date that Patrick Henry's first wife, Sarah Shelton, died to an unknown disease.
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This is the date that the Declaration of Independence was signed. Though Patrick Henry didn't sign this document it did affect his politics as a governor.
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This is the first time that Patrick Henry is elected as the governor. This is exactly one day after the Decleration of Independence is signed. This means that Patrick Henry can express his views about freedom to the virginian population.
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This is the date when Patrick Henry married his second wife Dorothea Dandridge after his former wife died to an unknown disease.
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This is the date that Patrick Henry was elected as the Governor of Virginia again. This is after the American Revolution has ended and it is in this position that he states that he fiercely opposes slavery.
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This is where all the delegates from the colonies met to amend the Articles of Confederation that was put in place so that the colonies would have a government in case they won the American Revolution. However instead of fixing the current government several delegates banded together and stated that they should form a new type of government. They made the government federalist based. Patrick Henry refused to come to this meeting.
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This was the date of the 'Ratifying Convention.' This was where all the Virginian Representatives met to conclude whether virginia would be federalist or anti-federalist.
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This is teh date that Patrick Henry was elected as an elector to vote in the 1789 election.
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This is the day that the famous politician and lawyer Patrick Henry died.
