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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, they were acting out against restrictive laws imposed by British Parliament. The resulting punishment prompted the formation of a Continental Congress and culminated in the Revolutionary War. Through simple, exciting language and full-color images, readers of this engaging volume will learn the backstory of "No Taxation Without Representation" and see how this act...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Boston Tea Party marked the beginning of the American colonies' break from British rule and would go on to inspire future protest movements. Boston Tea Party reveals why British laws prompted the event, how it led to the American Revolutionary War, and what later movements borrowed from the colonist's protest.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"By December of 1773, American colonists had grown increasingly frustrated. Among their complaints was that the British government had imposed a tea tax on colonists. The Americans objected because it was taxation without representation-that is, they had no say in who was elected to parliament. As tensions grew, plans formed to protest the tax by pouring hundreds of containers of tea into the Boston Harbor. One of the first acts of protest in America,...
14) Boston Tea Party
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The story leading up to the Boston Tea Party gets at the root of the story as this prelude to the Revolutionary War unfolds.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The Boston Tea Party recounts life in early colonial America leading up to the famous tea tax protest that pushed the American Patriots and the British closer to war. American Girl Felicity Merriman shares how she found herself caught in between the two sides of the American Revolution.
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Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Get ready for a trip in time to Boston, Massachusetts, 1773. Author Elaine Landau and her faithful dog Max will be your guides to a very important party : the Boston Tea Party. Tired of high British taxes, American colonists were so angry that they threw a whole delivery of British tea into Boston Harbor. Learn about the causes of the American Revolution! And do not forget your tomahawk there is lots of tea to dump!