How Did Tea and Taxes Spark a Revolution?: And Other Questions about the Boston Tea Party (Six Questions of American History)
Beginning with the Boston Tea Party, this teaching text goes on to describe events leading up to that act of destruction and the consequences that sparked battles in Lexington and Concord. The history is presented chronologically, answering the title question and five others, including the welcome “How do we know so much about the Boston Tea party?” On deep-gold pages with darkened edges, smoothly written text is enlivened with portraits of leading figures, prints and documents from the time, maps, and, temptingly, pictures from today shown on modern handheld devices. Sidebars appear as additional questions in a notebook; some unfamiliar words or phrases are glossed in the margins. The designer’s hand is heavy in this entry in the Six Questions of American History series, but the content is solid (save for misleading boundaries on a map of the original 13 colonies). A student writing activity is suggested, and the back matter includes a time line, source notes, bibliography, further research sources, and an index. Grades 4-6. --Kathleen Isaacs--This text refers to theLibrary Bindingedition.