Gadsden flag
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The Gadsden flag is a historical American flag with a yellow field depicting a timber rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. Beneath the rattlesnake are the words "Dont Tread on Me". Some modern vers
Benjamin Franklin's 1754 JOIN, or DIE. cartoon
Christopher Gadsden, designer of the flag, portrait by Jeremiah Theus, c. 1760-1770
Gadsden's flag in an 1885 schoolbook
Flag of the Providence United Train of Artillery
Tea Party movement
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The Tea Party movement was an American right-wing, fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2007, catapulted into the mainstream by Congressman Ron Paul's 200
Gadsden flag
…Originating in the American Revolution, the flag has in modern days become a symbol of American and international right-libertarianism, and later the Tea Party movement. The flag is named after Christopher Gadsden, a South Carolinian delegate to the Continental Congress, Slaver and brigadier general in the Continental…
Tea Party protesters on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall at the Taxpayer March on Washington on September 12, 2009
The iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier, The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor. The phrase Boston Tea Party had not yet become standard, and contrary to Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea were actually disguised as Native Americans.
A Tea Party protest in Dallas, April 2009
Michele Bachmann, Republican in Congress from Minnesota, 2007 to 2015