The Boston Tea Party

Movements and Resistance

By: Theodore Anderson, Rafal Szlapa

Narrated by: uncredited

By December of 1773, American colonists had grown increasingly frustrated. Among their complaints was that the British government had imposed a tea tax on colonists. The Americans objected because it was taxation without representation—that is, they had no say in who was elected to parliament. As tensions grew, plans formed to protest the tax by pouring hundreds of containers of tea into the Boston Harbor. One of the first acts of protest in America, the Boston Tea Party helped spark America’s fight for independence.

©2020 Theodore Anderson (P)2024 Capstone Press

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I have almost zero background in American History, but I came across this when I taught British and American Literature last year. I may have a brief idea of what this was all about, but it is good to know that this audiobook gave an overview of this part of history that elementary school children would understand. I may not fully understand how this came about, but thanks to this book, we are taught that there was a set of people who found the oppression of colonization too much and fought for their freedom. This, in some sort of way, honored their heroic deed.