After his election‚ a conservative moment known as the Tea Party emerged to fight back the left leaning Federal Government. 2016 saw the election of Republican Businessman Donald J. Trump‚ a left wing movement is at rise. Protests occur in the streets a day after his inauguration‚ People‚ mainly liberal‚ refer themselves as being apart of the new left movement with no official name‚ but to be called the Resistance. Movements such as the The Tea Party and the new founded Resistance are important as shown
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The Tea Party Then and Now Gerald Beaudet – PLS 220 Capstone In Boston the Tea Party of 1773 forever changed the face of America. In Chicago on February 23rd of 2009 Rick Santelli proclaimed it was time for a “Chicago style Tea Party in July.” (Santelli‚ 2009)Those words spoken by Rick Santelli started a grass roots movement that has changed politics and has influenced elections ever since. During the founding of our nation one important event stands true as one of the most important events
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Revolution. This event was known as The Boston Tea Party‚ taking place in Boston‚ a city in the British colony of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Patriots were in immense disapproval on how parliament was trying to monopolize the market on American tea importation granted to the East India Company (Boston Tea Party). The East India Company was a failing British corporation. This Company was on the verge of bankruptcy. They had millions of pounds of unsold tea that sat in warehouses. The idea was to persuade
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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 will
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Shortly after Barack Obama became president in 2009‚ a social movement began called the “TEA Party” or “Taxed Enough Already.” This movement began on social media and in the conservative‚ Republican‚ Christian groups in America. They utilized methods of communication such as Facebook at Twitter to raise awareness of their position‚ gain support‚ and arrange protests (Miller 2014). Purpose The purpose of the TEA Party movement was to bring awareness to the desire for America to limit the power and control
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many of the key events of the Revolutionary crisis.1 Hewes recollections of the events that took place were passed along in the monograph The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution by Alfred F. Young. His recollections of the dumping of the tea into the harbor lead the reemergence of how significant the dumping of the tea was for the United States of America. However‚ stories of Hewes were also spun in order to alter the views of others. In 2008 we saw a reemergence of an everyday
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inauguration of President Obama‚ we have watched with horror how the Tea Party has taken over the GOP. What started up as a bunch of disgruntled misfits‚ has mushroomed into a larger movement and taken over the Republican Party. Arguably‚ they were aided and abetted by the libertarian oligarchs‚ David and Charles Koch’s hidden interests which financed and supported the groups with huge donations to their “cause” and candidates running on Tea Party platform. Gradually‚ we have seen GOP abandon its conservative
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to magistrates about what Bostonians considered a massacre. Three years later‚ the town was caught up in a fervor over three shiploads of taxable tea. On the night of December 16‚ Hewes spotted a crowd of men in disguise heading toward Griffin ’s Wharf‚ near his shop. He grabbed a blanket‚ rubbed his face with soot‚ and joined them in dumping the tea into the harbor. Pre-Revolutionary newspapers mentioned Hewes only once‚ after a violent incident on January 25‚ 1774. He told a customs official
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The end of the French and Indian War and the attempt by colonists to make amends with King George III reinforced British identity throughout the American colonies. However‚ things such as the Declaration of Independence‚ the Boston Tea Party‚ the first Continental Congress‚ and Common Sense by Thomas Paine led to a unity and identity shift among the colonists in America. Therefore‚ there was more of an identity and unity change in the colonies instead of a continuity. At the end of the French and
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of the Destruction of the Tea Historical narratives are protean; as these stories are told and re-told throughout the ages‚ they morph with each passing from one mouth to another. "Historical narratives are ... also metaphorical statements which suggest a relation of similitude between such events and 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
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