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The Boston Tea Party

A cartoon titled “The Bostonians in Distress,” published in London, November 1774.

A cartoon titled “The Bostonians in Distress,” published in London, November 1774.

This cartoon appeared in November 1774, after the British closed the port of Boston in retribution for the Boston Tea Party.

Citation Information: Dawe, Philip, “Bostonians in distress, plate II,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/7b3b8e259a08f880d986d3b0b18efff1.

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An excerpt from Traits of the Tea Party, a memoir of George Hewes, a Tea Party participant, 1835.

An excerpt from Tea Leaves, an 1884 collection of letters and documents relating to the Boston Tea Party.

A notice from Boston announcing the British law blocking Boston Harbor until the East India Company was compensated for its lost tea, 1774.

A cartoon titled “The Bostonians in Distress,” published in London, November 1774.

A political cartoon, “Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught,” published in both London and Boston in May and June 1774.

An engraving published in London titled “The Tea-Tax Tempest,” 1778.

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