Maryland History

The Chester Town Tea Party

 

In our study of Maryland history we find that not only the city of Boston in Massachusetts had a Tea Party.  The city of Chestertown in Maryland also had a Tea Party.  Read the two links below and think of ways the two Tea Parties were alike and/or different.  Afterwards, answer the questions to prepare to create your circle sphere.

 

Boston Tea Party

Read both sections: “Events Leading to the Boston Tea Party” and “The Boston Tea Party”

 

Chestertown Tea Party

 

Answer the following question on the handout you were given.

 

Why were the people of Boston angry?

 

What do you think is Parliament?

 

What do you think “Taxation without Representation” means?

 

What did the people of Boston do to protest the Tea Tax?

 

Who did the people of Chestertown, MD support the people in Boston?

 

How was the Chestertown Tea Party different from the Boston Tea Party?

 

 

Follow the directions below to create your circle sphere:

 

·        Choose 5 different colors of construction paper.

·        Use the circle template, trace the circle and cut them out.

·        Choose one circle to be your title page.

o       Put your name.

o       Date.

o       Title: Chestertown Tea Party.

·        Write only the answer to the following questions on your circles using complete sentences. Put one answer on each circle. You may want to use pencil first and later trace over it with markers.

 

o       In the British government what is Parliament?

o       What is “Taxation without Representation?”

o       How did the people of Chestertown support the people of Boston?

o       Name two ways the Chestertown Tea Party different from the Boston Tea Party?

 

·        To complete your circle sphere fold all the circles in half.

·        Glue half of the back of the title circle to one half of the back of the question one circle. Then glue the half of the unglued half of the question one circle to on half of the question two circle. Next glue the unused half of the circle question two circle to one half of the question three circle.  Continue until you glue the unused half of the question four circles to the unused half of the title circle.  Click to see a sample.

·        Use the hole punch and put a hole in the top of one of the circles.

·        Put the string through it and tie it.

·        Turn it in.

 

 

Submitted by R. Justice

McDaniel College SLM 521 / Drop-in # 1 (fall 04)