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The Speech. Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death Speech by Patrick Henry to the Second Virginia Revolutionary Convention meeting at St. John’s Church, Richmond, on March 23, 1775*
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Patrick Henry was born in 1736 to John and Sarah Winston Henry on his family’s farm in Hanover County, Virginia. He was educated mostly at home by his father, a Scottish-born planter who had attended college in Scotland. Henry struggled to find a profession as a young adult. He failed in several attempts as a storeowner and a planter. He taught him...
Henry’s first major legal case was known as the Parson’s Cause in 1763, a dispute involving Anglican clergy in colonial Virginia. The case – one of the first legal attempts to challenge the limits of England’s power over the American colonies – is often viewed as an important event leading up to the American Revolution. Ministers of the Church of E...
costs of defending the American colonies. The Stamp Actof 1765 required American colonists to pay a small tax on every piece of paper they used. Colonists viewed the Stamp Act—an attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without approval from colonial legislatures—as a troublesome precedent. Patrick Henry responded to the Stamp Act with a s...
In March of 1775, the Second Virginia Convention met at St. John’s Church in Richmond to discuss the state’s strategy against the British. It was here that Patrick Henry delivered his most famous speech. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and five of the six other Virginians who would later sign the Declaration of Independencewere in attendance th...
Patrick Henry married his first wife, Sarah Shelton, in 1754, and the couple went on to have six children together. Her dowry included a 600-acre farm, a house, and six enslaved people. After Sarah died in 1775, he married Dorothea Dandridge of Tidewater, Virginia, and their union produced eleven children. Despite the size of his family, Henry and ...
Patrick Henry served as Virginia’s first governor (1776-1779) and sixth governor (1784-1786). In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, Henry became an outspoken Anti-Federalist. Henry and other Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of the 1787 United States Constitution, which created a strong federal government. Patrick Henry worried that a ...
Henry’s Full Biography; Red Hill Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation. Patrick Henry Arguing the Parson’s Cause; Virginia Museum of History and Culture. A Summary of the 1765 Stamp Act; Colonial Williamsburg. Patrick Henry, Orator of Liberty; U.S. Library of Congress.
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12 de ene. de 2024 · "Give me liberty or give me death!” is the closing line from a speech made by Patrick Henry to the Second Virginia Convention on 23 March 1775, in which he argued that war with Britain was inevitable and a militia should be raised to defend American liberties.
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to American politician and orator Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
23 de mar. de 2011 · Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775. No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House.
22 de mar. de 2015 · "Give me liberty or give me death!" Those words, spoken by Virginia colonist Patrick Henry during a March 1775 address to his state legislature, echo through history as a dramatic...
It follows the full text transcript of Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech, delivered at Richmond, Virginia - March 23, 1775.
