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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