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April 19 marks the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, and Boston is hosting a yearlong commemoration ...
The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum offers an immersive experience that takes you back to December 16, 1773, the day when American colonists protested against British taxation by dumping 342 ...
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 ...
That whole thing about "no taxation without representation"? Those taxes were mostly import duties on goods imported from Britain.
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.
After years of planning, volunteer committees in Concord and Lexington are chomping at the bit for tens of thousands of ...
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 ...