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The Boston Tea Party was the second American tax revolt against the British royal authority, the first occurring in April 1772, in Weare, New Hampshire known as the Pine Tree Riot where colonialists protested heavy fines levied against them for harvesting trees.
The Boston Pamphlet was a 1772 pamphlet published in Boston in the American Revolution.Written by members of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, the pamphlet outlined the rights of British American colonists and indicated how recent British policies were in violation of those rights.
The British credit crisis of 1772–1773, also known as the crisis of 1772, or the panic of 1772, was a peacetime financial crisis which originated in London and then spread to Scotland and the Dutch Republic. [1] It has been described as the first modern banking crisis faced by the Bank of England. [2]
For the reenactment, the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, located on the Congress Street Bridge, not far from where Griffin’s Wharf once stood, is a good stand-in. Replicas of the Beaver ...
The 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party was already on the boil, with all sorts of commemorative programs on Cape and a splashy reenactment slated for Dec. 16 at the Boston Tea Party Ships ...
On December 16, 1773, a group of Colonists destroyed a large British tea shipment in Boston harbor. So did this act of defiance light a fire that led to American independence within the next decade?
Letter from Thomas Young to Hugh Hughes, 21 December, 1772", The Massachusetts Historical Society "A Short History of the Boston Tea Party", Old South Meeting House; Reason and Revolution: The Radicalism of Dr. Thomas Young, P. Maier, American Quarterly, 1976. The Original Tea Partier Was an Atheist, Matthew Stewart, Politico, 1 September 2014.
Join the South Dennis Free Public Library for a Boston Tea Party party at 10 a.m. on Dec. 16. A scavenger hunt, games and crafts will commence and cookies and tea will be served to guests.