“The turning point was the Tea Act and the resulting Tea Party in Boston in December 1773.”

—  Bernard Bailyn , book The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 118

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