Civic Action: Protest
Civics 101
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The Boston Tea Party in Boston Harbor
The Tea Party in Boston Harbor is interesting because they dress as Native Americans because they want to hide their identity. They hide under the guise of indigenous people, which if you know anything about indigenous history in Massachusetts, it's absolutely preposterous. Do you know the modern day value of that tea that was dumped in the harbor? No. $1.7 million. But there was a class element to all of these uprisings, right? These were the working people. These were Scotch-Irish immigrants. The biracial former slaves who were the kind of vanguard of the revolution.
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