USA HISTORY

THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Sarah is headed for Philadelphia, but ends up in ____ due to a storm.
A
St. Louis
B
Massachusetts
C
Delaware
D
Boston
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Sarah is headed for Philadelphia, but ends up in Boston due to a storm. 3. Philadelphia is the second largest in the empire.

Detailed explanation-2: -James Hiller, Henri LeFevbre, and Moses go to Boston to pick up Sarah Phillips from the Dartmouth. As they arrive, the colonists of Boston attack the Dartmouth, tossing the tea stored on the ship overboard in retribution against the Tea Act in what would be known as the Boston Tea Party.

Detailed explanation-3: -The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists. It showed Great Britain that Americans wouldn’t take taxation and tyranny sitting down, and rallied American patriots across the 13 colonies to fight for independence.

Detailed explanation-4: -"No taxation without representation.” The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly. The episode escalated into the American Revolution, becoming an iconic event of American history.

Detailed explanation-5: -The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party, ” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade.

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