The Death Of A Shoemaker And The Tea Party By Alfred F. Young Essay

notorious for this was George Robert Twelves Hewes. Hewes was a Boston shoemaker, who at the age of twenty-eight witnessed four of his closest friends shot to death by The British red coats; he also participated in many of the key events of the Revolutionary crisis.1 Hewes recollections of the events that took place were passed along in the monograph The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution by Alfred

The Boston Tea Party was a key event that further escalated tension between colonists and the British government which helped propel the American Revolution. With tensions rising due to a long list of taxes issued from Parliament in the past thirteen years, colonists felt an increased need to protest against subordination to Britain. At the time, Britain was repaying war debts and felt that they were entitled to the right to tax the colonies since they funded their expeditions. However

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