Boston Tea Party.
1st Continental Congress.

http://www.usfca.edu/face-staff/conwell/revolution/congress.htm

1. They also agreed to meet again in May 1775, if the British did not change their policies.
   
2. The members agreed to boycott British goods and passed resolutions asserting colonial rights.
   
3. It consisted
   of representatives from the 13 British colonies in North America that in 1776 became the United States.
4. The purpose of the First Continental Congress was not to seek independence from Britain.
   
5. In 1774, the colonies held the First Continental Congress.
   
6. By the time of the first meeting of the Continental Congress ended, hostilities had begun between Britain and the colonies.
   
7. The representatives gathered to discuss their response to the British ''Intolerable Acts. ''
   
8. The First Continental Congress.
   

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_boston1774.html

1. 342 crates of tea were dumped into the ocean in response to a parliamentary act which imposed restrictions on the purchase of tea in the colonies.
   
2. The tea was shipped by an exporter in London.
   
3. On a cold December night in 1773, a group of rebellious American colonists some 5,000 people marched from the old South Meeting House to Griffin's Wharf.
   
4. Boston Tea Party.
   

http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/robinsonteachest.asp
 
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