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Unit Ten Amusing Ourselves to Death Preparation Prepare yourself for this topic before class Terms Information Chinese Boston: the center of a political radicalism In the early 19th Century, Boston was a center of the socially progressive movements in antebellum New England. The abolitionist, womens rights, and temperance movements all originated in New England, and Boston became a stronghold of such movements. /wiki/History_of_Boston ?Local?Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indians, dumped the tea in the harbor in the?Boston Tea Party. Some historians, like John Tyler, Benjamin Labaree and Benjamin Carp, have suggested that John Rowe provoked the crowd at Old South Church by saying, Now well see if Tea and Salt Water mixes. The British government retaliated with a series of very harsh laws; they closed down the Port of Boston and stripped Massachusetts of its self-government. The other colonies rallied in solidarity behind Massachusetts, setting up the?First Continental Congress, and arming and training their militia units. The British sent more troops to Boston, and made its commander General?Thomas Gage?the governor. When Gage discovered the Patriots had set up a shadow government based in the town of Concord, he sent troops to break it up.?Paul Revere,William Dawes, and?Dr. Samuel Prescott?made their famous midnight rides to alert the?Minutemen?in the surrounding towns, who fought the resulting?Battle of Lexington and Concord?in April 1775. It was the first battle of the American Revolution. (/wiki/Politics_of_Massachusetts) 波士顿 美国马萨诸塞州首府和海港城市。濒临马萨诸塞湾，位于查尔斯河和米斯蒂克河的河口，是州内最大城市。1630年被定位马萨诸塞湾殖民地首府。波士顿是反对英国限制美洲殖民地贸易的领导中心，导致美国独立革命的一些事件就是发生于此，如波士顿惨案（1770）和波士顿茶党案（1773）。1830~1865年曾是反奴运动的中心。当产业革命传至美国时，波士顿一跃成为重要的制造业和纺织业中心。 --《大英袖珍百科（中文版）》 New York :the symbol of a melting-pot America /wiki/Melting_pot The exact term melting pot came into general usage in the United States after it was used as a metaphor describing a fusion of nationalities, cultures and et