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1 A Book Report Rush Revere and the first Patriots
BY ETHAN SCOTT

2 The Boston Tea Party was an act of protest against the Tea Act of 1773, which had been recently passed by the British Government. During the Boston Tea Party, several hundred participants, including Paul Revere, dressed in disguise, as Indians. rowed in small boats to three cargo ships anchored in Boston Harbor, climbed aboard and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.

3 PAUL REVERE

4 Paul Revere was an American Patriot based in Boston who played a major role in the organization known as the Sons of Liberty. He was a silversmith and copper engraver. He used these skills to produce prints of famous events, such as the Boston Massacre. He was one of the Sons of Liberty political activist he participated in the Boston Tea Party.

5 Benjamin franklin

6 Born in Boston in 1706, Benjamin Franklin helped to draft the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and he negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War.

7 Patrick henry

8 Henry was a well-known lawyer and a fervent patriot
Henry was a well-known lawyer and a fervent patriot. One of the greatest orators in American history, he was born in Hanover County on May 29, Henry represented Virginia at the First and Second Continental Congresses, attended four of Virginia's five Revolutionary Conventions, and was the Commonwealth of Virginia's first governor. A member of the House of Burgesses before the American Revolution, he served in the House of Delegates during and after the war. In 1787 and 1788 Henry opposed ratification of the Constitution of the United States, fearing that it would create too strong a national government that would, without a bill of rights, endanger the liberties for which the American Revolution had been fought. Henry practiced law until 1794 and died at his residence at Red Hill, in Charlotte County, on June 6, 1799.

9 This book is about the Boston the Boston tea party was in December
16,1773 Samuel Adams and the sons of liberty boarded the three ships and threw 342 chest of tea overboard.

10 My information came from safesearch kids.com


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