Tea Party

A tea party is a formal, ritualized gathering for afternoon tea. It may also refer to:

United States politics

• One of several political protests by American colonists early in United States history, in response to Britain's Tea Act:
  • Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773; Boston, Massachusetts)
  • Chestertown Tea Party (May 1774; Chestertown, Maryland)
  • Edenton Tea Party (Edenton, North Carolina)
• Tea Party movement, an American socio-political movement that emerged in late 2007 through a series of locally and nationally coordinated protests
  • Tea Party protests, events organized by members across the country, beginning in 2009
• Boston Tea Party (political party), a U.S. political party named after the Boston Tea Party of 1773

Entertainment

• Tea Party (play), a play written by Harold Pinter, adapted from his own 1963 short story of the same title
• The Tea Party, a Canadian rock band
• "Tea Party" (song), a song by Estonian recording artist Kerli from the album Almost Alice
• "A Mad Tea Party", the seventh chapter of the novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• "Tea Party - The fallacy of a pivot without a fulcrum

See also

• Boston Tea Party (disambiguation)