Fourth point.
As the students glance repeatedly at the clock (Well, you can’t help it, it is last class on a Friday afternoon before the spring break), the teacher’s tale forms a pattern, showing the way History usually repeats itself. The protagonists of the story first protest the British tea, after the tax on it was removed to encourage colonists to buy the tea. The colonists get angry because the colonial merchants still have to charge the tax for the tea they sell, leaving them out of the tea trade. The Boston Tea Party happens, where the colonists dress as Indians and dump the tea from the ship over into Boston Harbor. The Boston Harbor is promptly shut down by Britain, not to be reopened until later on. In another scene, the colonists are protesting the Stamp Act, now because a tax was added to the items the colonists buy. The Stamp Act gets semi – quietly repealed after the furious colonists terrorize the tax collectors, forcing them into hiding.