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The Greenwich Tea Party was an incident that took place on December 22, 1774, early in the American Revolution, in Greenwich, a small community in Cumberland County, New Jersey, on the Cohansey River. Of the six tea parties during this time, it was the last and the least well-known due to the small size of Greenwich.
The following American politicians were affiliated with the Tea Party movement, which was generally considered to be conservative, libertarian-leaning, [1] and populist. [2] [3] [4] The Tea Party movement advocated for reducing the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit by reducing federal government spending and taxes.
The Tea Party Patriots is an American conservative [1] [2] [3] political organization founded in 2009 as part of the Tea Party movement. It is known for organizing citizen opposition to the Affordable Care Act during the presidency of Barack Obama , and more recently for supporting Donald Trump .
Tea Party members now tell stories of mailing literature from their laundry rooms, manning phone banks, knocking on doors, [96] and driving over 34,000 miles in their cars to build support for legislation. [77] The Tea Party Patriots now offer free, on-demand, online grassroots training programs. [97]
Thomas Melvill or Thomas Melville (January 16, 1751 – September 16, 1832) was a merchant, member of the Sons of Liberty, participant in the Boston Tea Party, a major in the American Revolutionary War, a longtime fireman in the Boston Fire Department, state legislator, and paternal grandfather of writer Herman Melville.
At the Tea Party. New York: OR Press. ISBN 978-1-935928-23-2. Lepore, Jill (2010). The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-3696-3. Gladney, Henry M. No Taxation without Representation: 1768 Petition, Memorial, and Remonstrance ...
Tea Party Patriots, an organization with more than 1,000 affiliated groups across the nation [213] that proclaims itself to be the "Official Home of the Tea Party Movement". [214] Americans for Prosperity, an organization founded by David H. Koch in 2003, and led by Tim Phillips. The group has over 1 million members in 500 local affiliates and ...
These two victories, and the resulting resurgence of the militias from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and Connecticut, forced the British out of most of New Jersey, boosting the morale of the Americans. The British were soon forced into an enclave around New Brunswick, giving up the rest of New Jersey." [6]