THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Both tried to take tea out of the harbor, and the captain was treated more harshly once he was caught.
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Both participated in the Boston Tea Party by throwing tea into the Boston Harbor.
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Both tried to take tea out of the harbor and were violently attacked for doing so.
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Both were spies working for the British that tried to save the tea from being ruined.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What connection does the author draw between Captain O’Connor and the “tall, aged man” (Paragraph 11)? A. Both tried to take tea out of the harbor, and the captain was treated more harshly once he was caught.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
Detailed explanation-4: -Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians.