The Shoemaker and The Tea Party: Book Assignment #1
PART I: IDENTIFICATION QUESTIONS
Historical Memory is oral and written testimonies from individuals who wither witnessed for took part in historical moments in history.
Benjamin Bussey Thatcher was an American author who wrote Traits of the Tea Party (1835) which was the second biography to be written about George Robert Twelve Hewes.
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783. It started with the rejection of the British Parliaments authority to tax the colonies. After ten years of tension between Britain and the colonies, war finally broke out in 1775.
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty that took place on December 16, 1773. Patriots, disguised as Native Americans, destroyed a shipment of tea from the East Inda Company to protest against the Tea Act. This led to the Intolerable Acts and helped further fuel the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
George Robert Twelve Hewes was a shoemaker from Boston who became involved in the political protests in Boston in the midst of the American Revolution. He took part in the Boston Tea Party and witnessed the Boston Massacre. He served as a …show more content…
Young takes a look at the first hand accounts that are recollected by Hewes in both of these biographies while looking at other historical sources to sort the truth from tall tales in order to more accurately see how an ordinary shoemaker could play a role in the American revolution. Part II of this book goes into a more detailed and general description of the events that took place durning the American Revolution while occasionally revisiting Hewes and his role. Young creates an account of these events that are unlike anything taught in a classroom because it is through the eyes of people who were actually at the
PART I: IDENTIFICATION QUESTIONS
Historical Memory is oral and written testimonies from individuals who wither witnessed for took part in historical moments in history.
Benjamin Bussey Thatcher was an American author who wrote Traits of the Tea Party (1835) which was the second biography to be written about George Robert Twelve Hewes.
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783. It started with the rejection of the British Parliaments authority to tax the colonies. After ten years of tension between Britain and the colonies, war finally broke out in 1775.
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty that took place on December 16, 1773. Patriots, disguised as Native Americans, destroyed a shipment of tea from the East Inda Company to protest against the Tea Act. This led to the Intolerable Acts and helped further fuel the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
George Robert Twelve Hewes was a shoemaker from Boston who became involved in the political protests in Boston in the midst of the American Revolution. He took part in the Boston Tea Party and witnessed the Boston Massacre. He served as a …show more content…
Young takes a look at the first hand accounts that are recollected by Hewes in both of these biographies while looking at other historical sources to sort the truth from tall tales in order to more accurately see how an ordinary shoemaker could play a role in the American revolution. Part II of this book goes into a more detailed and general description of the events that took place durning the American Revolution while occasionally revisiting Hewes and his role. Young creates an account of these events that are unlike anything taught in a classroom because it is through the eyes of people who were actually at the