250 Years Ago: The Road to the Revolutionary War

From the Boston Tea Party to the Intolerable Acts, these events were a powder keg for the American Revolution.

Angry American colonists dressed up as Mohawk Indians while they destroyed hundreds of pounds of British tea, in an event known as the Boston Tea Party. Public Domain

As the tea in the Boston Harbor cleared, reaction poured in.

“This is the most magnificent Movement of all. There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity in this last Effort of the Patriots, that I greatly admire. ... This Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid, and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences, and so lasting, that I cannot but consider it as an Epocha in History,” said John Adams.