foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluating historical events such as the Boston Tea Party. The importance of building a foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluating historical events such as the Boston Tea Party would be to gather all the facts and information on the events leading up to the Boston Tea Party as well as the events that was brought about because of the Boston Tea Party. There are usually two sides to every situation. Gathering all of the facts
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The Ethics that Revolve Around the Tea Party Movement When most people think about the Tea Party Protest‚ they think about the Boston Tea Party. On December 16‚ 1773‚ a group of colonists boarded ships loaded with tea and destroyed it by throwing it into the Boston Harbor. The basis of the protest comes from the famous saying “no taxation without representation.” After the Tea Act was passed‚ tea became one of the next items in the new world to bear a tax. Although the basis for the movement
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African-American man killed during the Boston Massacre and thus believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution. Who Was Crispus Attucks? Crispus Attucks is thought to have been born around 1723 in Framingham‚ Massachusetts. His father was likely a slave and his mother a Natick Indian. A 1750 ad in the Boston Gazette sought the recovery of a runaway slave named "Crispas‚" but all that is definitely known about Attucks is that he was the first to fall during the Boston Massacre on March 5‚ 1770
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Source A: This cartoon shows a British colonialist sitting on a box of tea after the Boston Tea Party. The colonist‚ clearly in a position of weakness‚ says “make no mistake… I’m still in command of this vessel.” Despite the colonist’s words‚ the patriots had clearly “won this battle”‚ and had taken a huge step forward towards independence. The cartoon shows that this event‚ organised by the Boston Patriots‚ weakened the colonists‚ and helped the Americans in their fight for independence. Context
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Celtic Landscapes The research for this presentation‚ and ultimately‚ the essay for this subject will be based on the different ways that the landscapes were represented during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century throughout Britain. Defining the term ‘Celtic landscape’ is integral to the understanding of the subject. Much like the term ‘borders’ that we came across earlier in the term‚ landscape is a constructed term‚ borders are created by identities: regional identities and national
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Summary of "The Boston Photographs" In "The Boston Photographs‚" writer Nora Ephron writes about three very controversial pictures taken of a rescue attempt that failed. The photographs were taken by Stanley Forman of the Boston Herald American. He was using a motor driven camera‚ which allowed him to take three frames per second. The first shot showed a fireman that was rescuing a woman and a child. The next picture showed the fire escape breaking off the building. The third picture showed the
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Boston Port Act O. The Boston Port Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 31st‚ 1774. The person who was in charge of the British Parliament at the time‚ was King George III‚ who is upset about the Boston Tea Party occurring prior to The Boston Port Act. This document is a primary source‚ specifically‚ one of the parts of the Intolerable Acts‚ used to punish the colonists for their acts of disobedience toward the British Parliament. P. The Boston Port Act is‚ as stated in the first
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The Boston Tea Party happened as a result of “Taxation without representation”‚ but the cause is more complex than that. The American colonist believed they were treated unfairly by the British. Colonist believed parliament did not have the right to tax them because the American colonist were not being represented in the parliament. The Boston Tea Party was organized and carried out by a group of Patriots led by Samuel Adams called “The Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty was made of males from
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processes and the story types that we conventionally use to endow the events of our lives with culturally sanctioned meanings." The myth we know as the Boston Tea Party was not always the coherent narrative we recognize today. With each passing generation‚ different groups have appropriated the public memory of the Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbor to forward their own agendas. Specifically‚ women’s suffragists throughout
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The truth of the accounts that took place December 16‚ 1773‚ a day remembered by Americans as The Boston Tea Party‚ is one that is disputed. It seems as though there is a basic story of American patriots dressed as Indians‚ carrying tomahawks and hatchets boarding three ships in the Boston Harbor and throwing overboard over 300 cargo containers full of British East-Indian Company tea that was sent by England to tax the colonies without agreement. These acts were carried out without damage to any
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