THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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John Adams
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Samuel Adams
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Lord North
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George Hewes
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Detailed explanation-1: -The next day, budding patriot John Adams wrote to his friend James Warren enthusiastically about the audacious stroke: “The Dye is cast: The People have passed the River and cutt away the Bridge: last Night Three Cargoes of Tea, were emptied into the Harbour.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although he had not liked his fellow colonists’ destructive response to the Stamp Act eight years earlier, John Adams applauded the Boston Tea Party.
Detailed explanation-3: -Adams’s statement was “the signal for the Boston Tea Party, ” he pronounced definitively. “Instantly a shout was heard at a door of the church from those who had been intently listening for the voice of Adams. The war whoop resounded.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Boston Tea Party eventually proved to be one of the many reactions that led to the American Revolutionary War. In his December 17, 1773, entry in his diary, John Adams wrote: Last Night 3 Cargoes of Bohea Tea were emptied into the Sea. This Morning a Man of War sails.