The importance of the series of crises from the sugar act through the coercive acts, and how each crisis changed the colonial attitudes toward the mother country.

mount st. helens in washington erupts, causing a massive avalanche and killing 57 people on this day in 1980. ash from the volcanic eruption fell as far away as minnesota. seismic activity at mount st. helens, which is 96 miles south of seattle, began on march 16.