<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Booknotes interview with Alfred Young on The Shoemaker and the Tea Party, November 21, 1999, C - SPAN </Td> </Tr> <P> John Adams and many other Americans considered tea drinking to be unpatriotic following the Boston Tea Party . Tea drinking declined during and after the Revolution, resulting in a shift to coffee as the preferred hot drink . </P> <P> According to historian Alfred Young, the term "Boston Tea Party" did not appear in print until 1834 . Before that time, the event was usually referred to as the "destruction of the tea". According to Young, American writers were for many years apparently reluctant to celebrate the destruction of property, and so the event was usually ignored in histories of the American Revolution . This began to change in the 1830s, however, especially with the publication of biographies of George Robert Twelves Hewes, one of the few still - living participants of the "tea party", as it then became known . </P> <P> The issue was never the tax but how the tax was passed without American input; United States Congress taxed tea from 1789 to 1872 . </P>

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