The protest known as the Boston Tea Party was in response to the Tea Act, which, in part, maintained a tax on tea imposed by the British Parliament. The Tea Act allowed the British East India ...

The British having run up a huge debt fighting ... (Boston,MA 07/01/16) Photo shows Shawn Ford, Vice President-Executive Director Boston Tea Party ... [+] Ships & Museum (L) and Nick ...

Professor Labaree asserts that the Boston Tea Party marked the point of no return in deteriorating British-colonial relations during the 1770's. When George III's ministry rashly retaliated with ...

It was one of the first major acts of defiance against British rule and “changed the course of American history,” said Evan O’Brien, creative director at the Boston Tea Party Ships and ...

The Intolerable Acts of 1774 followed the Boston Tea Party and were meant to isolate ... Ordered owners of private dwellings to accommodate British soldiers.

let’s just say things didn’t go as the British had planned. “We look at the Boston Tea Party as the single most important event that led up to the American Revolution,” says Evan O’Brien ...

March 5: After 18 months of a British Army presence in Boston ... December 16: In the event known as the Boston Tea Party, colonists disguised as Indians dump imported tea into Boston Harbor ...

Twisting through the American city of Boston, the Freedom Trail isn’t long, but links so many must-see locations where modern America began that you’ll need more than a day to do it justice.