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Article: No time for tea (Grade Level: Elementary Grades, 3-5).(Lessons Plans on the Constitution)
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- Social Education
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Introduction
Students will learn how the Constitution of the United States provided the framework for the country's democratic form of government. Students also will learn how the Constitution provided for representation within the government. A short story about the Boston Tea Party gives the background related to the catchphrase "taxation without representation" and how that changed with the advent of the new nation and later the Constitution.
Concepts
* Taxes
* Representative government
* Democracy
Objectives
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
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Article: Revisiting the Boston Tea Party
The Washington Post;
October 9, 2003 ;
322 words
... ... because he supposedly would raise taxes, and "the Boston Tea Party was a revolt against higher taxes" [news story, Sept. 24]. The Boston Tea Party was not a revolt against higher taxes, but a revolt ...
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