What Was the Boston Tea Party?

I LOVE the entire series and this book is no different. I wish they would have had these when I was young and I would have done far more reading and learned so much more. I love the pictures and how the wording is entertaining. I have actually found that you get the same information from these as you do in high school text books but you retain this information better because they make it so much fun.

Great and simple. Big letters. Good for small children .

I love this series! I've bough numerous other titles to donate to my child's school library

I learned about the Boston Tea Party in elementary school many years ago. Now I only remember that a bunch of people in Boston got mad at the British and dumped a lot of tea in the Boston harbor. In "What Was the Boston Tea Party?" one can almost hear the drumbeat of events starting at the end of the French and Indian War and leading to the Boston Tea Party. To begin with, the British, who had never levied direct taxes against the colonists, demanded the colonists pay for the French and Indian war and levied the Stamp Tax to collect payment. As soon as the Stamp Tax ended, due to universal protest among the colonists, the Townshend Acts passed. In order to keep the colonists in line, British troops were sent to Boston. However, this only enraged the colonists further. British troops had previously only been used to protect the colonists, not police them. One event like this followed another. Kathleen Krull makes clear, by marching through each of these events, that the Boston Tea Party was inevitable. And the Boston Tea Party was, she says "one of the most powerful protests ever, rocking the world and in time leading to the birth of a whole new country." I thought the Boston Tea Party was a chaotic event. Not so! It was very well planned and well-orchestrated and it was quiet. It was also a nonviolent event and is thus significant to the nonviolent political movements that followed. The book spends a bit of time after the Boston Tea Party explaining the events between the tea party, in 1773, and the beginning of the Revolutionary War in 1775. In the middle of the book there are 16 pages of photographs and photos of paintings including portraits of leaders of the Revolutionary War and pictures that record well known events such as an engraving by Paul Revere of the Boston Massacre. The illustrations are pen and ink with details that add to the story. In the back of the book there is a timeline of the Boston Tea Party as well as a timeline of the world. There is a bibliography which includes both books and websites. Unfortunately, there is no index. I am so glad to know the context of the Boston Tea Party. It enhances my appreciation of the generation of Americans that included our founding fathers.

My 8 year old loves these books! They are full of great information and easy to read and follow along. I enjoy reading them together and discussing the history in them!

There is a lot to like in this book. Not only is it a solid introduction to, and account of, the Boston Tea Party, but it does a wonderful job of putting it in context. Not only do you come put of this with an understanding of why the Boston Tea Party happened, but also how it fed into events that followed. Prior to the Stamp Act, the 13 colonies were highly independent from one another. This was an issue they could agree on. After the Boston Tea Party the colonies drew together more and more, in part because they were effected by the same taxes and issues, partly because they understood that the way England was treating Boston/Massachusetts and responding to the Tea Party could just as easily happen to them.

Great history book about the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution for children! I wish these books were around when I was a kid.

My daughter used this for a book report on non-fiction stories. We went to the Boston Tea Party Museum this summer and this was the perfect follow up. You could also read this beforehand for some great backstory.

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意外にも子供が一生懸命読んでいました。歴史に興味を持ったようで良かったです。