Thorndike: OK, number one, the Boston Tea Party was not a protest against high taxes. It was definitely a tax protest, but it was sparked by a tax cut, not a tax hike. So by 1773, Americans had ...

An issue of the Massachusetts Spy newspaper from December 16, 1773—the same day as the Boston Tea Party—proclaimed, “We are positively informed that the patriotic inhabitants of Lexington ...

The Boston Tea Party demonstrates ... Finally, on the night of December 16, 1773, a group of "Mohawks" tossed 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. "This Destruction of the Tea," wrote John ...

Long Hill Reservation, one of the most beautiful places in Massachusetts, is located at 572 Essex Street, in Beverly. You can explore this lovely estate year-round, with tours offered in the spring, ...

1773) include 3D holograms, talking portraits and the Robinson Tea Chest, an authentic tea chest from the Boston Tea Party. Two of the three ships have been recreated, the Beaver and the Eleanor ...

In 1773 rebels unconvincingly disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three docked ships in Boston Harbor and dumped ... repaid the damage caused by the Tea Party, installed a British general as ...

American patriot protesters were vehemently against the UK parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, which allowed the ... Image caption, The Boston Tea Party was a protest against British taxes imposed ...

National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Rendezvous Mountain Chapter, is sponsoring three separate contests this year: American History Essay Contest (grades 5-8); American Histor ...

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Shop for Red Sox gear online The Boston Tea Party was a symbolic protest in 1773 against the East India Company selling tea from China in Boston without taxes. The episode ...

In 1773 rebels unconvincingly disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three docked ships in Boston Harbor and dumped ... repaid the damage caused by the Tea Party, installed a British general as ...