Tea Party Lives in the Past

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There are two historical trivia mistakes that many Americans make.

One is that they believe that the picture on the Sam Adams beer bottle is Sam Adams, not Paul Revere. Second, that the Boston Tea Party in 1773 orchestrated by Sam Adams was a protest just against the tax on tea.

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Tea Party Lives in the Past

That latter is incorrect because the three-penny tea tax was passed by Parliament in 1767 as part of the Townsend Duties, ...

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