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The first book written about the event was The Historic Tea Party of Edenton, 1774: Incident in North Carolina Connected with Taxation written by Richard Dillard in 1892. In 1907, Mary Dawes Staples wrote an article entitled The Edenton Tea Party, which was published by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). [31]
The Talbot Resolves was a proclamation made by Talbot County citizens of the British Province of Maryland, on May 24, 1774. The British Parliament had decided to blockade Boston Harbor as punishment for a protest against taxes on tea. The protest became known as the Boston Tea Party.
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Barker wrote a statement proposing a boycott of British goods, like cloth and tea. Followed by 50 other women, the Edenton Tea Party was created. [1] [7] On October 25, 1774, Barker and her supporters, Edenton Ladies Patriotic Guild, met at the house of Elizabeth King to sign the Edenton Tea Party resolution that protested the British Tea Act ...
The December 16, 1773 Boston Tea Party, led by Samuel Adams and Sons of Liberty, has become a mainstay of American patriotic lore. In 1767, the British Parliament passed the Townshend Acts , which placed duties on several staple goods, including paper, glass, and tea, and established a Board of Customs in Boston to more rigorously execute trade ...
Parliament passes the Tea Act, requiring the colonies to buy tea solely from the East India Company rather than a variety of sources now deemed illegal (May 10) Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York published by local Sons of Liberty (December 15) Colonists in all major ports refuse to allow tea to be landed; Boston Tea Party (December 16)
Philadelphia Tea Party (October 16, 1773) First Continental Congress (September 5 to October 26, 1774) Continental Association created (October 20, 1774) Petition to the King ratified (October 25, 1774) Second Continental Congress (convened on May 10, 1775) Hanna's town resolves (May 16, 1775) Olive Branch Petition (July 1775)
In the wake of the Boston Tea Party, the British government instated the Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts in the colonies. [1] There were five Acts within the Intolerable Acts; the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, the Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act. [1]