Bust those Boston Tea Party myths!

Recollection from George Hewes, a participant in the Boston Tea Party. Also includes a summary of the event.

Good overview with brief facts about the Boston Tea Party.

Article discussing the Boston Tea Party in context of protesting and social activism in the United States.

The article discusses the Boston Tea Party in 1773 in Massachusetts and the Boston chapter of the Tea Party political group. Parallels are drawn between the American Revolution, the Tea Party movement, and other revolutionary acts that have taken place in Massachusetts.

Detailed and interesting recounting of the Boston Tea Party complete with first-hand remembrances from Joshua Wyeth

Resource which includes citizen resolutions, poems and songs, and public protests against the Tea Act; a newspaper debate on the nature of patriotic opposition; the views of John Adams and Benjamin Franklin on the Boston Tea Party; an American cartoon celebrating the Boston Tea Party; a sermon on justifiable war for the defense of liberty; and, as always, the retrospective views of Patriot historian David Ramsay.

Transcription of Tea Act on the American colonies.

n the year 1768 the British Empire believed that they had honed in on the source of the troublesome sedition in the American Colonies and singled out Massachusetts as the primary culprit. In a stunning move the empire ordered General Thomas Gage to occupy the city and set in motion a path of bloodshed and chaos.

The Boston Tea Party led Parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts in 1774. The colonists were really super and not amused.