Visitors can explore authentically restored tea ships and interactive exhibits that bring history to life. The museum features re-enactments, a documentary film, and even a chance to ...

The American colonies were forced to pay a tax — tariff — on tea, which ignited the American Revolution ... the British East India Co., into the Boston harbor. The “Tea Act of 1773 ...

When news of the Boston Tea Party reached England ... The stage was set for the first battles of the American Revolution.

The American Revolution--like everything before ... a simple matter of momentous decisions and memorable epigrams. The Boston Tea Party demonstrates, in plentiful detail, how perplexingly "modern ...

A new exhibit at the Concord Museum in Concord, Massachusetts shows what everyday life was like in the 18th century as part ...

This hands-on museum offers an entertaining look at one of Boston's pivotal moments ... immediately preceded the American Revolution. You can also grab a cup of tea or a snack in Abigail's ...

“Sparks of the Revolution: James Otis and the Birth of American Democracy”: by Todd Otis (Modern ... The big act of resistance was the 1773 Boston Tea Party, in which colonists dumped tons of the ...

Everyone knows that the American Revolution began in Massachusetts ... When the Intolerable Acts, the British response to the Boston Tea Party, closed Boston's docks in 1774, hundreds of men ...

It was an ironic beginning for a building that, over the next 284 years, would serve as a forum for practically every significant debate in American ... initiated the Boston Tea Party from the ...