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September 2, 2002. ( 2002-09-02) –. April 4, 2003. ( 2003-04-04) Liberty's Kids (stylized on-screen as Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776) is an American animated historical fiction television series produced by WHYY and DIC Entertainment, and originally aired on PBS Kids from September 2, 2002, to April 4, 2003, with reruns airing on most PBS ...
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [ 2] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.
Thomas White (patriot) Thomas White (March 19, 1739 – September 13, 1820) was an Irish American Patriot who took part in the Boston Tea Party, was a member of the Sons of Liberty, and served under General Washington in the American Revolution.
First, I had to figure out what the Boston Tea Party was all about. According to the National Park Service, "in 1773 (the British Parliament) granted the struggling East India Company a monopoly ...
The Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act, a tax measure enacted by Parliament in May 1773.
Green Dragon Tavern. / 42.3609194°N 71.0569222°W / 42.3609194; -71.0569222. The Green Dragon Tavern was a public house located on Union Street (then known as Green Dragon Lane) in Boston. A popular meeting place for both the Freemasons and the Sons of Liberty, it was demolished in 1832. [ 1]
This suggestion earned her the nickname, "Mother of the Tea Party." She was an active member of the Daughters of Liberty throughout the Revolution, and in later years, she helped to coordinate volunteer nurses to assist with the Battle of Bunker Hill. [6] Sarah Franklin Bache was a Daughter of Liberty and the daughter of diplomat Benjamin ...
Christopher Seider (or Snider) (1758 – February 22, 1770) was a boy who is considered to be the first American killed in the American Revolution. [ 1][ 2][ 3] He was 11 years old when he was shot and killed by customs officer Ebenezer Richardson [ 4] in Boston on February 22, 1770. [ 5][ 6] His funeral became a major political event, with his ...