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Examines events leading up to the American Revolution, including the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Intolerable Acts, the Boston Massacre, and the Boston Tea Party. Primary source accounts represent different perspectives and shed light on social, political, and economical causes of the American Revolution.
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"Build literacy skills and social studies content knowledge with the Reasons for a Revolution primary source reader. This . . . text explores the increasing tension between the colonies and Great Britain, including the ways England tried to control the colonists. This high-interest book spotlights primary source documents and text features include a glossary, index, bold text, and captions"--Amazon.com.
12) Boston Tea Party
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Discusses the dumping of tea by American colonists into Boston Harbor in 1773 as a protest against the British taxation of tea imports.
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Presents an overview of the Boston Tea Party and the conflict between the American colonists and the British government. Includes questions throughout the text prompting readers to think about what choices they would make in each situation discussed, a timeline, a glossary, and a list of additional resources.
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"A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the "American Revolution": former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams...