THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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The only person arrested at the Boston Tea Party.
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A self employed wheelwright
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Died at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Charleston
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -He was a self-employed wheelwright and militiaman during the American Revolution. He died June 19th, 1775 at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Charleston, Massachusetts, from the wounds he received in battle.
Detailed explanation-2: -Salem Poor has remained one of the very few fabled African American heroes of the Revolutionary War since 1775, due to his strength and stability at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Detailed explanation-3: -On June 17, 1775, New England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. Popularly known as “The Battle of Bunker Hill, ” bloody fighting took place throughout a hilly landscape of fenced pastures that were situated across the Charles River from Boston.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Letters from Boston complain much of the taste of their fish being altered. Four or five hundred chests of tea may have so contaminated the water in the Harbour that the fish may have contracted a disorder, not unlike the nervous complaints of the human body.