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==Revolutionary==
==Revolutionary==
[[File:Give me liberty, or give me death! - Patrick Henry.jpeg|thumbnail|300px|center|right]]
[[File:Give me liberty, or give me death! - Patrick Henry.jpeg|thumbnail|300px|right|right]]
Though Henry had already been active in the efforts to extend the [[Committees of Correspondence]] to Virginia in 1772 and 1773, a step which laid the groundwork for future revolutionary activity, it was only following the [[Intolerable Acts]] in response to the [[Boston Tea Party]] that he again drew notice as a prominent opponent of British policy. After the House of Burgesses expressed solidarity with [[Massachusetts]], the main target of the Acts, the royal governor, Lord Dunmore, dissolved the legislature. Henry then led the assembly members across the street to [[Raleigh Tavern]], where, at his urging, they revived the Association, now aiming to embargo all imports from Britain, and called for all the colonies to send representatives to a general congress. This would become the [[First Continental Congress]], to which Henry was selected as one of the Virginia delegates in August 1774, receiving more votes than anyone except House Speaker Randolph.
Though Henry had already been active in the efforts to extend the [[Committees of Correspondence]] to Virginia in 1772 and 1773, a step which laid the groundwork for future revolutionary activity, it was only following the [[Intolerable Acts]] in response to the [[Boston Tea Party]] that he again drew notice as a prominent opponent of British policy. After the House of Burgesses expressed solidarity with [[Massachusetts]], the main target of the Acts, the royal governor, Lord Dunmore, dissolved the legislature. Henry then led the assembly members across the street to [[Raleigh Tavern]], where, at his urging, they revived the Association, now aiming to embargo all imports from Britain, and called for all the colonies to send representatives to a general congress. This would become the [[First Continental Congress]], to which Henry was selected as one of the Virginia delegates in August 1774, receiving more votes than anyone except House Speaker Randolph.