The year is 1764 and news of George Grenville's Sugar Act has just reached the shores of Boston. Do the colonists care? Not at first, until a certain rabble rouser makes it his problem to make it everyone else's problem too.
Key Players:
Patriots:
Samuel Adams- Harvard Grad turned rabble rouser; watched his family get ruined by the land bank debacle
James Otis Jr- Successful lawyer and politician, enemy of Hutchinson, besties with Adams
Loyalists:
George Grenville- Prime Minister of England, creator of The American Duties Act (Sugar Act)
Thomas Hutchinson- Lt governor of Massachusetts, while holding many other positions, he had a lot of enemies
Frances Bernard- Royal Governor of Massachusetts, lots of power, little patience
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