PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Boston Tea Party
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the Boston Tea Party.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional?
By exploring historical accounts of events surrounding the Boston Tea Party, young scholars learn about the sources and methods historians use to reconstruct what happened in the past. It includes extended websites for further research.
CommonLit
Common Lit: A Participant's First Hand Account of the Boston Tea Party
A learning module that begins with "A Participant's First-hand Account of the Boston Tea Party" by George Hewes, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: The Boston Tea Party
This primary source set allows you to explore the Boston Tea Party through photographs, cartoons, letters, and oral histories. Includes a teaching guide.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 4: The Boston Tea Party
Use the three sources and knowledge of social studies to answer questions about The Boston Tea Party.
Other
Boston Tea Party Historical Society
Comprehensive site providing detailed information on the Boston Tea Party including a timeline of events, historical accounts, causes, the participants, pictures, and much more.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Taxation Without Representation: The Boston Tea Party
An overview of the Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Story Behind the Boston Tea Party
This short TED talk given by Ben Labaree gives the background of the Boston Tea Party and its eventual ramifications. [3:48]
Have Fun With History
Have Fun With History: The Boston Tea Party: 1773
An interactive slide show about the Boston Tea Party with links to museums and sites related to the Boston Tea Party.
Massachusetts Historical Society
Mass. Historical Society: Coming of the American Revolution: Boston Tea Party
Discover a detailed account of the dramatic protest known as "The Boston Tea Party", one of the key events that led to the Revolutionary War. Supported by primary source documents.
Children's Books Online
Children's Books Online: The Boston Tea Party
"The Boston Tea Party", published in 1882 by Dodd Mead & Company, has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 20 page book is appropriate for advanced readers.
Ibis Communications
Eye Witness to History: The Boston Tea Party, 1773
This article details information surrounding the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Boston Tea Party
Gives a historical description of the events that led up to the Boston Tea Party (1773).
Other
Boston Tea Party Historical Society Timeline
Learn about the historic events that preceded the Boston Tea Party and ultimately led to this famous protest.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Boston "Tea Party"
Overview of the conflict between Britain and American colonists over policies imposed favoring the British East India Company leading to rebellion and what is known as the Boston Tea Party.
Read Works
Read Works: A Very Messy Tea Party
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passages describes the Boston Tea Party and the laws passed that led up to this historical event. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
PBS
Pbs Liberty!: The Boston Tea Party
This site provides brief information about the Boston Tea Party, and the Edenton Ladies Tea Party. Use this site to learn about these events and discover why they are infamous events in American history. A video clip is also included.
Open Door Team
Open Door Web Site: The "Boston Tea Party"
This brief article hits the high points of the Boston Tea Party-the reason, those involved, and England's response.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Quiz: The Boston Tea Party for Kids
History Questions: Boston Tea Party Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
PBS
Pbs Liberty!: High Tea in Boston Harbor
Presented in a newspaper format, this site explores the rise of independence in the colonies with a focus on the Boston Tea Party as it occurred on April 1, 1774 and Benjamin Franklin's experience in London. Content includes a look at...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Causes of the American Revolution: Trouble in Boston [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, 5th graders look at ideas and British policies that contributed to the outbreak of the American Revolution. Includes background information for the teacher. Students explore ideas that were circulating in...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Tea Act and Tea Parties
Read the text of the Tea Act, passed by the British Parliament primarily as a way to rescue the failing British East India Company. Find out about the colonists' reactions to this tax, and read a first-hand account of the Boston Tea Party.
Digital History
Digital History:the Tea Party and Intolerable Acts [Pdf]
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...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773 and was an act of rebellion by the American colonists against the British. Learn some key facts about this event.