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| A political protest by Boston, Massachusetts, residents against the British government. It is one of the key events in the start of the American Revolution.On December 16, 1773, the night before the tea was supposed to be landed, the Sons of Liberty, a group of about 60 local Boston residents organized by Samuel Adams, burst from the Old South Meeting House and headed toward Griffin's Wharf, dressed as Mohawks. Three ships - the Dartmouth, the Eleanor and the Beaver - were loaded with hundreds of crates of tea. The men boarded the ships and began destroying the cargo. By 9:00 PM they had smashed 342 crates of tea in all three ships and had thrown them into Boston Harbor.[image] |
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| (September 27, 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American revolutionary and organizer of the Boston Tea Party. He was also the cousin of another revolutionary and a future president of the Unites States of America, John Adams, one of the signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776).[image] |
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| An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts, United States, that lasted from 1786 to 1787. Many of the rebels, known as Shaysites or Regulators, were small farmers angered by high debt and tax burdens. The rebellion started on August 29, 1786. A state militia that had been raised as a private army defeated the main Shaysite force February 3, 1787. Most of the rebels were treated leniently. The lack of an institutional response to the uprising led to a re-evaluation of the Articles of Confederation and the negotiations for a new Constitution.[image] |
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| An event that occurred on Monday, March 5, 1770 and helped eventualy spark the American Revolution. Tensions caused by the military occupation of Boston were greatly increased after soldiers fired into a rioting crowd of civilians. John Adams later said that on the night, the foundation of independent America was laid.
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