Which fiery Massachusetts orator wrote that one single act of Parliament had set more people thinking in six months than ever before?
AJohn Hancock
BJames Otis
CPaul Revere
DJohn Dickinson
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. James Otis
1. The Sugar Act's preamble opened a constitutional dispute about taxing for revenue.
2. James Otis, the fiery orator from Massachusetts, wrote that one single act of Parliament had set more people a-thinking in six months than in their whole lives before.
3. Samuel Adams, a colonial lawyer, found in the preamble the first intimation of taxation without representation.
4. Hancock presided over the later Congress and Revere rode before Lexington, different roles entirely.
_Source: "An Outline of American History" (USIA, 1990, public domain), Ch 2 "The War of Independence"_
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