Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PBAC demonstrations will coincide with the re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party by Boston 200, the city's official bicentennial organization...
TOMORROW is the 200th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Party was no picnic, nor was it a purely symbolic act. Celebrating it as either can only obscure our understanding of the American Revolution and conceal the meaning of revolutionary activity in general. That is why there is some significance to the way Americans choose to recall the Tea Party at the beginning of the Revolution's Bicentennial celebration...
...historian, Richard Maxwell Brown, writes that the Tea Party stemmed from a century-long heritage of mob violence in Boston. Discontent was rampant up and down the colonial seaboard after the British government granted the East India Company a monopoly on all tea exported to the American colonies; only in Boston did discontent manifest itself in violence. Boston's merchant class feared that the monopoly would, according to one patriot, "destroy every branch of our commerce, drain us all of our property, and wantonly leave us to perish by the thousands...
These fears were exaggerated; nevertheless, Sam Adams led a meeting of the patriots that decided to enlist the aid of the South End Mob of Boston and dump tea from three British cargo ships into Boston Harbor. "Many persons," an exultant John Adams wrote at the time, "wish that as many dead carcasses were floating in the harbor as there are chests of tea." The effect of the action, conclude historians Morrison and Commager, was to commit the patriots once and for all to the use of violent means against the British oppressors...
...England seemed no different. By the emperor's decree, only Canton could be used as a port of call. This allowance was seen as a favor. Chinese believed that they needed nothing the British could offer and, according to one wide misconception, that the English could not live without tea or rhubarb, without which they would surely die of constipation...