NH's Pine Tree Riot: Don’t MASS Up U.S. History

NH's Pine Tree Riot: Don’t MASS Up U.S. History

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ICYMI: AFP-NH Celebrates Pine Tree Riot Anniversary in Weare

Weare, NH — In case you missed it, Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire (AFP-NH) hosted a celebration of the 254th anniversary of the Pine Tree Riot, one of the earliest acts of resistance leading up to the American Revolution. The Pine Tree Riot took place in 1772 in New Hampshire, when local settlers resisted British enforcement of the White Pine Acts, laws that reserved valuable pine trees for the Crown. It signaled growing colonial opposit…