Describes the Boston Tea Party, including the events leading up to the party, its immediate effects on American-British relations, and why it is still an important event today.

A phonics-based nonfiction book for level-three beginning readers, providing information about the Boston Tea Party, one of the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. Includes a glossary, map and list of books and web sites for further study.

"Readers learn that New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston each had their own tea party that took place around the same time as Boston's.

It began in Boston, with angry colonists objecting to the tyranny of a king who ruled from an ocean away. It was voiced by patriots such as Sam Adams and Patrick Henry and echoed by citizens from New England all the way to the Carolinas. It was fought by many -- colonists and patriots, Loyalists and slaves, Frontiersmen and Indians, British and French soldiers. Over more than ten years, sides were taken, guns drawn, lives lost. But through it all,...