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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Will the Real Samuel Adams Please Stand Up

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in a "To Tell The Truth" game show activity in order to determine the role of Sam Adams in the Revolutionary events that took place in the Boston area. They ask questions of three students posing as Sam Adams to...
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Website
Digital History

Digital History:the Tea Party and Intolerable Acts [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the problems Great Britain was having with its restive American colonists who objected to taxation on their beloved tea. See how the Tea Act resulted in the Boston Tea Party and how British attemps to punish the colonists for...
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Samuel Adams

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview on the early American radical, Samuel Adams, a political organizer who called for American independence.
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Activity
Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: The "Boston Tea Party"

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief article hits the high points of the Boston Tea Party-the reason, those involved, and England's response.
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Activity
The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: Historic Maps: Revolutionary Boston: Old South Meeting House

For Students 9th - 10th
Uncover what happened the night of the Boston Tea Party in 1773 where a large meeting was held in the Old South Meeting House to decide how to handle the duty taxes being put on tea by the British.