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Sugar Actin' Up

August 15
48 mins

Episode Description

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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