num_pages: 304
description: On Thursday December 16 1773 an estimated seven dozen men many dressed as Indians dumped roughly 10000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. Whatever their motives at the time they unleashed a social political and economic firestorm that would culminate in the Declaration of Independence two-and-a-half years later. The Boston Tea Party provoked a reign of terror in Boston and other American cities as tea parties erupted up and down the colonies. The turmoil stripped tens of thousands of their homes and property and nearly 100000 left forever in what was history's largest exodus of Americans from America. Nonetheless John Adams called the Boston Tea Party nothing short of magnificent saying that it must have important consequences. Combining stellar scholarship with action-packed history Harlow Giles Unger reveals the truth behind the legendary event and examines its lasting consequence--the spawning of a new independent nation.
language: English
title: American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution
publisher: Da Capo Press