Edenton Tea Party

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The Edenton Tea Party was a 1774 political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, where women publicly pledged to boycott British tea and goods in one of the earliest organized women’s political actions in American history.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf boycott
event in the American colonies
political protest
country British Empire
surface form: Great Britain (colonial authority)
depictedAs “petticoat rebellion” in British satire
documentSignedBy 51 women of Edenton
Penelope Barker
follows Boston Tea Party
genderAspect women’s political participation
hasCause protest against taxation without representation
hasCommemoration annual local observances in Edenton
historical markers in Edenton, North Carolina
hasDate October 25, 1774
hasDocument resolutions signed by Edenton women
hasEffect increased attention to women’s political activism
public declaration of women’s political stance
hasLanguage English
hasLegacy example used in women’s history scholarship
symbol of early American women’s activism
hasLocation Edenton
surface form: Edenton, North Carolina

Province of North Carolina
hasMethod boycott of taxed commodities
nonimportation agreement
hasParticipant 51 women of Edenton
Penelope Barker
hasParticipantType women
hasPoliticalAlignment Patriot cause
hasPoliticalGoal pressure on British merchants and government
support for American colonial rights
historicalPeriod pre-Revolutionary America
locatedInTime 1774
mainSubject boycott of British goods
boycott of British tea
mediaCoverage British newspapers
satirical cartoon in London press
opposedTo British taxation policies
Tea Act
organizer Penelope Barker
partOf American Revolutionary era
surface form: American Revolution era

American colonial resistance to British rule
relatedTo Boston Tea Party
Daughters of Liberty
nonimportation movement
significance early example of female-led collective political protest in the Thirteen Colonies
one of the earliest organized women’s political actions in American history
usesTactic collective pledge
public signing of resolutions

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Edenton hasHistoricEvent Edenton Tea Party