... greed; because they will obey obsolete clichés of state sovereignty and national honor- (361). At some point, it becomes necessary to disobey. That point was reached in Germany in the 1930's and it has been reached several other times in history. In December of 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a bus to ... began to speak out against what they felt were unfair taxes and poor representation in the government. Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense called for independence from Britain. The Boston Tea Party showed the British that ...

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... by the British Parliament to raise revenue in the American Colonies, including the Tea Act, which gave British trading company a monopoly on the import of tea into the colonies. This reached its peak on December 16, 1773 when a group of Bostonians dumped a British cargo of tea into Boston Harbor. This act of resistance is referred to as the Boston Tea ... Party. In 1774 the Massachusetts legislature send Adams and four others as its representatives to the First Continental Congress. Adams served Massachusetts again at the Second Continental Congress where he was ... ...

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... Boston customs house. The crowd grew larger and rowdier. The soldiers panicked and fired at the crowd. When the smoke cleared, five people lay dead. Three ships loaded with tea reached Boston harbor in late November 1773. The colonial governor insisted to unload their cargo as usual. Sam Adams sent a messenger to the governor, demanding that the ships leave the harbor ... . Colonists called the four laws they passed the Intolerable Act because they were so harsh. The colonists had to pay for the tea they had spilt during the Boston Tea Party, forbade the colonists to hold town meetings, ...

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... pay custom duties. After gathering a meeting, about 150 men disguised themselves as Indians and dumped every tea chest into the water. The furious royal government responded to this "Boston Tea Party" by the so-called Intolerable Acts of 1774, practically eliminating self-government in Massachusetts and closing Boston's port. . Also called the Coercive Acts, they were a major factor contributing to the ... neither Parliament nor King would hear or consult them. Britain's greatest error was to misjudge the Thirteen Colonies, their attitudes, capabilities and levels of society. Too few fi...

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... relationship between the Americans and England had always been dreadful. Americans hated England for, which lead to sedition. When England decided to punish the Bostonians harshly for the Boston Tea Party, strong resentment towards the British developed. The Intolerable Acts had not forced the Americans to submission, but instead it built up rebellious anti-British feelings among the colonists. These feelings ... claim the piece of land, he set out with his 2400 redcoats. As the men climbed Breed's Hill, each carried a 125-pound pack; it was so heavy that when they reached their destina...

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