How Did Tea and Taxes Spark a Revolution? and Other Questions about the Boston Tea Party: And Other Questions about the Boston Tea PartyDiscusses how and why American colonists protested high taxes from Great Britain by dumping tea in Boston Harbor in 1773, as well as the ramifications of their actions. |
Contents
Introduction | 4 |
One No Taxation Without Representation | 6 |
Two Redcoats In Boston | 12 |
Three Tea And Taxation | 20 |
Four Saltwater Tea | 28 |
Five Paying The Fiddler | 34 |
John Andrewss Letter | 42 |
Tell Your Boston Tea Party Story | 43 |
Timeline | 44 |
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Back Cover | 50 |
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