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Mind Map by Maria Caicedo Diaz, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Maria Caicedo Diaz
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TEA PARTY
- WHY DID THE BOSTON TEA
PARTY
- In the 1760s, Britain was deep in debt, so British Parliament imposed a series of taxes on American
colonists to help pay those debts.
- In the 1760s, Britain was deep in debt, so British Parliament imposed a series of taxes on American
colonists to help pay those debts.
- BOSTON MASSACRE ENRAGES COLONISTS
- Boston massacre between American colonists and British soldiers.
- Boston massacre between American colonists and British soldiers.
- SONS OF LIBERTY
- The Sons of Liberty were a group of colonial merchants and tradesmen founded to protest the Stamp Act and other forms of
taxation
- The Sons of Liberty were a group of colonial merchants and tradesmen founded to protest the Stamp Act and other forms of
taxation
- WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BOSTON
PARTY
- That night, a large group of men many reportedly members of the Sons of Liberty disguised
themselves in Native American garb, boarded the docked ships and threw 342 chests of tea into the
water.
- That night, a large group of men many reportedly members of the Sons of Liberty disguised
themselves in Native American garb, boarded the docked ships and threw 342 chests of tea into the
water.
- Who Organized the Boston Tea
Party?
- Though lead by Samuel Adams and his Sons of Liberty and organized by John Hancock, the names of
many of those involved in the Boston Tea Party remain unknown.
- Though lead by Samuel Adams and his Sons of Liberty and organized by John Hancock, the names of
many of those involved in the Boston Tea Party remain unknown.
- Coercive Acts
- Britain hoped the Coercive Acts would squelch rebellion in New England and keep the remaining colonies
from uniting, but the opposite happened: All the colonies viewed the punitive laws as further evidence of
Britain’s tyranny and rallied to Massachusetts’ aid, sending supplies and plotting further resistance.
- Britain hoped the Coercive Acts would squelch rebellion in New England and keep the remaining colonies
from uniting, but the opposite happened: All the colonies viewed the punitive laws as further evidence of
Britain’s tyranny and rallied to Massachusetts’ aid, sending supplies and plotting further resistance.
- SECOND BOSTON TEA PARTY
- A second Boston Tea Party took place in March 1774, when around 60 Bostonians boarded the ship Fortune and dumped nearly 30 chests of tea into
the harbor.
- A second Boston Tea Party took place in March 1774, when around 60 Bostonians boarded the ship Fortune and dumped nearly 30 chests of tea into
the harbor.
- First Continental Congress Is Convened
- On September 5, 1774, elected delegates from all 13 American colonies except Georgia met in Carpenter’s Hall in
Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress to figure out how to resist British oppression.
- On September 5, 1774, elected delegates from all 13 American colonies except Georgia met in Carpenter’s Hall in
Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress to figure out how to resist British oppression.
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