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Tag Archives: The Boston Tea Party
Abigail Adams and The Misdirected Tea
Tea was expensive. Very expensive!! The Colonists and Tea By the time of the Boston Tea Party, tea itself was one of the most expensive commodities traded between Great Britain and her American colonies. It was more than just a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Abigail Adams inoculation for smallpox, American history, Elizabeth Adams, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, General George Washington, history, John Adams, Presidential history, Samuel Adams, smallpox in 1775, Taxation without Representation, The Boston Tea Party, The FIrst Continental Congress, The Sons of Liberty, US history
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The Miracle of Dorchester Heights 1775-6
It was pivotal. It was bold. It was a colonial victory. It was never a battle. Boston, Massachusetts There is little doubt that Boston was the cradle of the American Revolution. In the 1760s, when Great Britain began imposing various … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams, American history, British General William Howe, Dorchester Heights, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, Fort Ticonderoga, General George Washington, George Washington, Henry Knox, history, King George III, Presidential history, The American Revolution, The American war of Independence, The Battle of Bunker Hill, the battles of Lexington and Concord, The Boston Tea Party, the cannons at Fort Ticonderoga, The FIrst Continental Congress, The Revolutionary War, the Second Continental Congress, The siege of Boston
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John Adams Goes to Congress
Lawyer Adams John Adams was never a wealthy man, and never would be – at least compared to his fellow Founding Fathers like Washington or Jefferson. Or John Hancock or Benjamin Franklin. When he married at 29, he had become … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams brother William Smith, American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, history, John Adams, John Adams and the Continental Congress, John Adams' diary, John Hancock, President John Adams, Presidential history, Robert Treat Paine, Samuel Adams, The Boston Tea Party, The committees of Correspondence, The FIrst Continental Congress, Thomas Cushing, US history, White House history
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The Tea Party Tea Box
A rare treasure of American history! The Boston Tea Party Eons ago when I was in the 4th grade, everybody learned the basics of the Boston Tea Party. The gist being that back in December 1773, colonists in Massachusetts had … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Boston history, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, John Robinson's tgea box, the Beaver, The Beaver Eleanor and Dartmouth, The Boston Tea Party, The Boston Tea Party Museum, The Robinson Half-Chest, The Sons of Liberty, the tax on tea, US history
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