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Molly Pitcher and the Boston Tea Party

Molly Pitcher

Molly Pitcher was born in the year 1754, near Trenton, New Jersey.

Molly Pitcher

During the battle of Monmouth, she carried water to the American troops, earning the nickname Molly Pitcher, and when her husband was wounded at his cannon, she took over and continued firing for the battle.

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party

Molly Pitcher Awarded

Molly Pitcher was awarded by the U.S. F. A. A. and the A. D. A. A. to recognize women who have voluntarily contributed in a significant way to the improvement of the U.S. Field Artillery or Air Defense Artillery Communities.

Molly Pitcher End Of Her Life

After Molly's second husband died, she was voted an annuity for her ‘services’ rather than as a veterans' widow, suggesting that she had seen action.

Later her story would sometimes be confused with Margaret Corbin.

http://www.biography.com/people/molly-pitcher-9390922

Tea Party

Tea Act Passed

British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773.

On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.

It took nearly three hours for more than 100 colonists to empty the tea into Boston Harbor. The chests held more than 90,000 lbs. (45 tons) of tea, which would cost nearly $1,000,000dollars today.

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party.

The Tea Party

Boston Tea Party Words

The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773.

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.

On Monday morning, the 29th of November, 1773, a handbill was posted all over Boston, containing the following words: "Friends! Brethren! Countrymen!--That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the harbor; the hour of destruction, or manly opposition to the machinations of tyranny, stares you in the face. Every friend to his country, to himself and to posterity, is now called upon to meet at Faneuil Hall, at nine o'clock this day (at which time the bells will ring), to make united and successful resistance to this last, worst, and most destructive measure of administration." http://www.boston-tea-party.org/in-depth.html

The Tea Act

Boston Tea party

Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen to "No taxation without representation," that is, be taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a British parliament in which they were not represented.

Parliament responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, or Intolerable Acts, which, among other provisions, ended local self-government in Massachusetts and closed Boston's commerce.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen to "No taxation without representation," that is, be taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a British parliament in which they were not represented.

Tea Party

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