In 1765 came the Stamp Act. This was a tax on any printed material ... Just like that, 92,000 pounds of tea went overboard and the Boston Tea Party became legend. King George III was livid. In the ...

sparking the Boston Tea Party of 1773. The Intolerable Acts of 1774 followed the Boston Tea Party and were meant to isolate Massachusetts and compel obedience to Britain. Notable restrictions ...

The Boston Tea Party demonstrates, in plentiful detail, how perplexingly "modern" the world had become 200 years ago. This excellent narrative explores every facet of the highly complicated events ...

On Dec. 16, 1773, American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Co., into the Boston harbor.

an authentic tea chest from the Boston Tea Party. Two of the three ships have been recreated, the Beaver and the Eleanor, which are fun to explore. The film "Let It Begin Here" depicts the events ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress In 1773, when the colonists of Massachusetts staged the Boston Tea Party in Boston Harbor ... like fits -- came early in 1765. (In 2003 DNA research conducted ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War with the "shot heard 'round the world ...