Age of Revolutions · TURNING POINT ·
Boston Tea Party (1773)
16 Dec 1773 — Three shiploads of taxed tea go into the harbor. Parliament answers with the Coercive Acts; the colonies answer with a Congress.
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- Causes of the American Revolution (chapter 1 of Age of Revolutions)
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- The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848
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