Welcome to Call to Decision 

 Amerucan Minute with Bill Federer

 November 28

 Following the hated Stamp Act of 1765, the British committed the
 Boston Massacre in 1770, firing into a crowd, killing five.

 Colonists responded with the Boston Tea Party in 1773.

 The British then blocked Boston Harbor in 1774 to starve the city
 into submission.

 The President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress was James
 Warren, husband of Revolutionary War author Mercy Otis Warren.

 James Warren proposed Sam Adams form Committees of Correspondence to
 inform the nation of injustices committed in Boston.

 President James Warren, who died NOVEMBER 28, 1808, approved the
 Massachusetts Resolution:

 "In Provincial Congress, Watertown, June 16, 1775 - As it has pleased
 Almighty God in his Providence to suffer the calamities of an
 unnatural war to take place among us...

 the most effectual way to escape those desolating judgments...will be
 that we repent."

 The Resolution continued:

 "Among the prevailing sins of this day, which threaten the
 destruction of this land, we have reason to lament the frequent
 prophanation of the Lord's Day, or Christian Sabbath...

 It be recommended by this Congress, to the people...that they...pay a
 religious regard to that day, and to the public Worship of God
 thereon."