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- demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea
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- In response to the Boston Tea Party, in 1774 Parliament passed a series of Coercive Acts that closed the port of Boston, eliminated most forms of self-rule in Massachusetts, and allowed British soldiers to be housed in colonial buildings. A Renegade History of the United States
- He winks at President Obama's most visible public opposition, citing the original Boston Tea Party, and pulls out his originalist ouija board, declaring that James Madison and Alexander Hamilton would have opposed ratification of the Constitution had they known the individual mandate might someday become law. The fight over health-care reform is more political than legal
- The event, known as the Boston Tea Party, led to a series of British punitive measures which propelled the colonies towards war.
- After the Boston Tea Party in 1774, however, his willingness to compromise vanished.
- The elegantly dressed, pink-bespectacled president also once scaled the fence at Gramercy Park with ladders and sat illegally in the park saying "this today was our Boston Tea Party. Honesty Cabby Returns $75,000 Worth Of Jewelry He Found In His Taxi
- My personal opinion (gut feeling) tells me this was the biggest ripp-off of the American people (taxpayers) since the “Boston Tea Party”,if that makes any sense? Homeless in an economic storm
- The fact that normal people who thought a teabag was a modern reference to the Boston Tea Party, got an education to the underworld of the Lefties. Latest Articles
- After the Boston Tea Party, Franklin was brought before the Privy Council, and denounced by Wedderburn, the solicitor-general, as a mischievous incendiary and a man no one could trust.
- The East India Company was the target of that Boston Tea Party, after all, for a reason. Greedy Health Care Special Interests Wage Most Expensive War Ever
- Could you explain how this "bastardizes" the Boston Tea Party? BlueOregon