THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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“Give me liberty or give me death.”
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“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
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“No taxation without representation.”
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“A watched pot never boils.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -What famous phrase does Henri start saying during the raid on the Dartmouth? “Give me liberty or give me death."
Detailed explanation-2: -However, rather than purchase the tea, on the night of December 16th, 1773 the Sons of Liberty boarded the trade ships docked in Griffin’s Wharf and threw the shipments of tea overboard in an event known as the Boston Tea Party.
Detailed explanation-3: -In April 1774, the British Parliament passed the Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts, which punished Massachusetts for the Tea Party incident. The Acts not only took away home rule from Massachusetts, it forced all Americans to board British troops in unoccupied buildings.
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: -Philadelphia is the second largest in the empire. 4. The colonists in Boston that were upset with Parliament were called the Sons of Liberty.