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Revolutionary America! What Was the Problem? A Massacre and Tea Party in Boston - 0 views

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      ajlee1 on 02 Oct 13
       
      This is a great site
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Boston Massacre Site | City of Boston - 1 views

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  • A minor dispute between a wigmaker's young apprentice and a British sentry turned into a riot.
  • jnmccarthy on 02 Oct 13
     
    A couple of facts. Says how it started.
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Participants in the Boston Tea Party | Boston Tea Party Participants | Boston Tea Party... - 1 views

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    "It is estimated that hundreds took part in the Boston Tea Party. For fear of punishment, many participants of the Boston Tea Party remained anonymous for many years after the event. To date it is known that 116 people are documented to have participated. Not all of the participants of the Boston Tea Party are known; many carried the secret of their participation to their graves. The participants were made up of males from all walks of colonial society. Many were from Boston or the surrounding area, but some participants are documented to have come from as far away as Worcester in central Massachusetts and Maine. The vast majority was of English descent, but men of Irish, Scottish, French, Portuguese, and African ancestry were documented to have also participated. The participants were off all ages, but the majority of the documented participants was under the age of forty. Sixteen participants were teenagers, and only nine men were above the age of forty. Many of the Boston Tea Party participants fled Boston immediately after the destruction of the tea to avoid arrest. Thousands witnessed the event, and the implication and impact of this action were enormous ultimately leading to the start of the American"
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Boston Tea Party Historical Society - 0 views

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  • he Boston Tea Party occurred on Thursday, December 16, 1773, and took 3 hours between 7 and 10 PM
  • The Tea Party occurred at the Griffin’s Wharf in Boston that no longer exists due to landfills that occurred in 19th century
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The Tea Act | Boston Tea Party Facts | 1773 | Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum - 2 views

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  • The passing of the Tea Act imposed no new taxes on the American colonies. The tax on tea had existed since the passing of the 1767 Townshend Revenue Act. Along with tea, the Townshend Revenue Act also taxed glass, lead, oil, paint, and paper.
  • ue to boycotts and protests, the Townshend Revenue Act’s taxes were repealed on all commodities except tea in 1770. The tea tax was kept in order to maintain Parliament’s right to tax the colonies. The Tea Act was not intended to anger American colonists, instead it was meant to be a bailout policy to get the British East India Company out of debt. The British East India Company was suffering from massive amounts of debts incurred primarily from annual contractual payments due to the British government totaling £400,000 per year. Additionally, the British East India Company was suffering financially as a result of unstable political and economic issues in India, and European markets were weak due to debts from the French and Indian War among other things. Besides the tax on tea which had been in place since 1767, what fundamentally angered the American colonists about the Tea Act was the British East India Company’s government sanctioned monopoly on tea.
  • The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773,
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  • ownshend Revenue Act also taxed glass, lead, oil, paint, and paper.
  • e Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor
  • jnmccarthy on 03 Oct 13
     
    lots of information on the boston tea party
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Boston Tea Party Historical Society - 4 views

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  • On Monday morning, the 29th of November, 1773, a handbill was posted all over Boston, containing the following words: "Friends! Brethren! Countrymen!--That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the harbor; the hour of destruction, or manly opposition to the machinations of tyranny, stares you in the face. Every friend to his country, to himself and to posterity, is now called upon to meet at Faneuil Hall, at nine o'clock THIS DAY (at which time the bells will ring), to make united and successful resistance to this last, worst, and most destructive measure of administration."
  • The ship Dartmouth, from London, with a cargo of tea,
  • The ship Dartmouth, from London, with a cargo of tea, had anchored off the castle the day before. By invitation of the Boston Committee of Correspondence those of Roxbury, Cambridge, Dorchester and Brookline assembled in the room of the selectmen, while crowds of citizens were pouring into Faneuil Hall, and resolved, by unanimous vote, to use their joint influence to prevent the landing of the tea. It was also resolved to invite all the town-committees in the province to co-operate with them.
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  • At that moment a person with painted face and dressed like an Indian gave a war-whoop in the gallery, which was responded to in kind from the door of the meeting-house. Another voice in the gallery shouted: "Boston harbor a teapot to-night! Hurrah for Griffin's Wharf!" The meeting instantly adjourned and the people rushed for the street, and pushed toward Griffin's Wharf, following a number of men disguised as Indians. The populace cheered. Guards were posted to keep order. Among them was John Hancock.
  • The ship Dartmouth,
  • cethorp on 02 Oct 13
     
    when on this site, click the description tap and there is a lot of fact there!
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The Boston Massacre - 4 views

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  • killing 3 on the spot (a black sailor named Crispus Attucks, ropemaker Samuel Gray, and a mariner named James Caldwell),
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    Boston massacre
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Boston Teaparty - Cassandra Jansen < Before 1800 < Documents < American History From Re... - 1 views

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  • But the colonists responded by boycotting tea. Unlike earlier protests, this boycott mobilized large segments of the population. It also helped link the colonies together in a common experience of mass popular protest. Particularly important to the movement were the activities of colonial women, who were one of the principal consumers of tea and now became the leaders of the effort to the boycott.
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Boston Tea Party - 3 views

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  • Angry and frustrated at a new tax on tea, American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty and disguised as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three British ships (the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver) and dumped 342 whole crates of British tea into Boston harbor on December 16, 1773. Similar incidents occurred in Maryland, New York, and New Jersey in the next few months, and tea was eventually boycotted throughout the colonies. Related Resources:
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The Boston Tea Party, 1773 - 14 views

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  • However, if the colonies paid the duty tax on the imported tea they would be acknowledging Parliament's right to tax them.
  • In Charleston the tea-laden ships were permitted to dock but their cargo was consigned to a warehouse w
  • ere it remained for three years until it was sold by patriots in order to help finance the revolution.
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  • They were also looking for ways to reestablish control over the colonial governments that had become increasingly independent while the Crown was distracted by the war.
  • The colonies refused to pay the levies required by the Townsend Acts claiming they had no obligation to pay taxes imposed by a Parliament in which they had no representation. In response, Parliament retracted the taxes with the exception of a duty on tea - a demonstration of Parliament's ability and right to tax the colonies.
  • In about three hours from the time we went on board, we had thus broken and thrown overboard every tea chest to be found in the ship
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      great primary source
  • tazmijewski on 02 Oct 13
     
    "boston tea party"
  • cethorp on 02 Oct 13
     
    A lot of reading and facts. It also has the same picture that was shown in class
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Boston Massacre Historical Society - 3 views

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  • bmoconnor on 02 Oct 13
     
    "The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts."
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