THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Question
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Both were wealthy Bostonians
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Both did their part for the Patriot cause
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Neither liked British tea
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Neither had much money or education
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hewes joined the band of disguised Bostonians who protested the Tea Act by dumping tea into the Boston harbor. Reportedly, Hewes went to the captain of one of the ships and demanded the keys to the tea chests. A month later Hewes was at the center of the events surrounding the tarring and feathering of John Malcolm.
Detailed explanation-2: -They refused to pay taxes on the tea and asked that the tea be returned to Great Britain. When it wasn’t, they decided to protest Britain’s unfair taxes by throwing the tea into the ocean.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.