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The name
The name “Tea Party” refers to the Boston Tea Party of 1773. Colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest the tea tax, which they saw as “taxation without representation.” -
Start of the Tea Party movement
Tea Party movement website was designed and published by the CSE. "Our US Tea Party is a national event, hosted continuously online and open to all Americans who feel our taxes are too high and the tax code is too complicated." -
Barack Obama
People angered and this only pushed them to do more protest. -
Porkulus Protest
Carender first organized what she called a "Porkulus Protest" in Seattle on Presidents Day, February 16, the day before President Barack Obama signed the stimulus bill into law. -
Frist National Protest
This is where the movement was frist inspired to coalesce under the collective banner of "Tea Party" -
Shout heard around the world
The Tea Party Movement gained support when on February 19, on live TV, CNBC reporter Rick Santelli argued about the bailouts and shouted, "The government is promoting bad behavior." Standing in the middle of the Chicago Stock Exchange, he declared that America needed "a new kind of tea party," so that citizens can express their discontent with "the government's support of fiscal irresponsibility." -
Tea Parties
Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Denver, Colorado, Houston, Texas, Washington, D.C. all held rallies on Feb. 27 -
Independence day
It was held on the grounds of the Southfork Ranch, in Plano Texas, which drew 37,000 attendees. The themes that organizers and participants sounded at these events were much of the same as the Tax Day events. -
Tea Party Movement
American political movement known for its conservative positions and its role in the Republican Party. -
Symbols
In 2009, the Gadsden flag became widely used as a protest symbol by Tea Party protesters. It was also displayed by members of Congress at Tea Party rallies -
Supporters
In February 2010, when the Tea Party was less well known, the balance of opinion toward the movement was positive (33% favorable vs. 25% unfavorable). Unfavorable opinion spiked to 43% in 2011 after Republicans won a House majority and Tea Party members played a leading role in that summer’s debt ceiling debate. -
Health Care Bill
The final round of debate before voting on the health care bill was marked with vandalism and widespread threats of violence to at least ten Democratic lawmakers across the country, which created public relations problems for the fledgeling Tea Party movement -
Tea Party, DC March
This march helped lower taxes and government spending. -
Elections
The first Tea Party activist to win a special election for a state assembly seat was Dean Murray in Long Island. They won several Senate seats, electing Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey, and Mike Lee to the Senate in the 2010 elections. The Tea Party once again played a role in elections in 2012. -
Impact
Tea Party movement has had a measurable impact, most notably in terms of getting people more involved in the political process. Now that the 2010 elections are over, one of the key stories in the coming political year is whether the Tea Party will gain or lose influence in American politics. -
The movement
The debt ceiling fight turned out to be a damper on the American economy, and for the approval ratings of political leaders in Washington. The release of three separate polls that showed Americans are not just more skeptical of their movement, but growing tired of their role in the political process, which builds on previous evidence that the Tea Party is being pushed away by independent voters. -
After debt-ceiling crisis
A poll put disapproval at 51% with a 31% approval. The national Tea Party movement appears to have lost some ground in popular support after the blistering debate over raising the nation's debt ceiling in which Tea Party Republicans...fought any compromise on taxes and spending". -
Tax Day
Success from the Chicago Tea Party protests, as part of a concerted nationwide effort, led to the first of many scheduled Tea Party rallies. Following the February 27th Tea Parties, a group called Americans for Prosperity of North Carolina began implementing plans for a "Tax Day" Tea Party rally in Raleigh on the tax filing deadline. -
Can You Hear Us Now
Tea party demonstrations have targeted local and national media outs across the country to oppose massive government spending. The movement was led by FaxDC in about 100 cities across the U.S. -
Education
The movement has exposed the progressive agenda and its significant correlation with the failings of higher education in America.
