THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Boston
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Charleston
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London
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Teasburgh
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sarah is headed for Philadelphia, but ends up in Boston due to a storm.
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: -Sarah and her father are going deep into the wilderness to build a house on a plot of land her father purchased from the Indians. Sarah’s mother could not bring her newborn baby on this trip, so Sarah offered to go along with her father and cook for him.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation, ” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
Detailed explanation-5: -What was the significance of the Boston Tea Party in the run-up to the American Revolution?-It ended the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade.-It provoked the British government to take action against the colonists.