On May 10th in US Political History
On May 10th in 1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci left for his 1st voyage to New World.
On May 10th in 1652 John Johnson, a free black, was granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va.
On May 10th in 1676 Bacon's Rebellion began. It pitted frontiersmen against the government. Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia involved an attack on a local Indian community and the sacking of the colonial capital in Jamestown. It is described by Catherine McNicol Stock in her 1997 book “Rural Radicals; Righteous Rage in the American Grain.”
On May 10th in 1752 Benjamin Franklin 1st tested his lightning rod.
On May 10th in 1773 To keep the troubled East India Company afloat, British Parliament passed the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the American colonies.
On May 10th in 1775 The Second Continental Congress convened in Pennsylvania. It named George Washington as supreme commander. Benjamin Franklin represented Pennsylvania soon presented his reworked Plan of Union under the title The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.
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