The Boston Tea Party
(2020)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Capstone, 2020
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781496681256 (electronic bk.) MWT14011984, 1496681258 (electronic bk.) 14011984
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
By December of 1773, American colonists had grown increasingly frustrated. Among their complaints was that the British government had imposed a tea tax on colonists. The Americans objected because it was taxation without representation-that is, they had no say in who was elected to parliament. As tensions grew, plans formed to protest the tax by pouring hundreds of containers of tea into the Boston Harbor. One of the first acts of protest in America, the Boston Tea Party helped spark America's fight for independence
Rated E
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