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    • In the 1760s, Britain was deep in debt, so British Parliamentimposed a series of taxes on American colonists to help pay those debts. The Stamp Act of 1765 taxed colonists on virtually every piece of printe… See more

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    What happened at a Tea Party in 1774?
    The British East India Company reported damages of 9,649 pounds. More tea parties, or similar events, occurred along the East Coast, including a second tea party in Boston. In March 1774, 60 men boarded the Fortune in Boston Harbor and threw the contents of 30 chests of tea overboard. Demonstrations against the Tea Act also occurred in:
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  1. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts1234. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor123. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company2. The destruction of the tea set in motion events that led directly to the American Revolution3.
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    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

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    Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.

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    Urged on by a crowd of cheering townspeople, the disguised Bostonians destroyed 342 chests of tea estimated to be worth between £ 10,000 and £ 18,000. Their actions, which became known as the Boston Tea Party, set in motion events that led directly to the American Revolution (1775 – 83).

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    The Boston Tea Party, which occurred on December 16, 1773 and was known to contemporaries as the Destruction of the Tea, was a direct response to British taxation policies in the North American colonies. The British response to the Boston Tea Party was to impose even more stringent policies on the Massachusetts colony.

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    What was the Boston Tea Party?
    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest staged on December 16, 1773 at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists.

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    Was the Tea Party a successor to the Boston protest of 1773?
    Since then other political protests such as the Tea Party movement have referred to themselves as historical successors to the Boston protest of 1773. The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, a tax passed by the British Parliament in 1773.

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    What happened at a Tea Party in 1774?
    The British East India Company reported damages of 9,649 pounds. More tea parties, or similar events, occurred along the East Coast, including a second tea party in Boston. In March 1774, 60 men boarded the Fortune in Boston Harbor and threw the contents of 30 chests of tea overboard. Demonstrations against the Tea Act also occurred in:

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    Did American Patriots dump black tea into Boston Harbor?
    On December 16, 1773, American patriots dumped 342 chests of black tea off British boats into Boston Harbor. Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party (1773) in Boston Harbor, as depicted in a Currier & Ives lithograph.

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    How did the Boston Tea Party affect the American Revolution?
    The Boston Tea Party led to a significant escalation in tension between the Patriot and Loyalist sides, eventually leading to the American Revolution. The Coercive Acts took specific action to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party, such as shutting Boston Harbor until the destroyed tea was paid for.

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    How did the Boston Tea Party respond to the Coercive Acts?
    A mob organized by the Sons of Liberty raided three ships and threw all of the tea they were carrying into Boston Harbor. Parliament responded to the incident by passing the Coercive Acts, which led to the colonies holding the First Continental Congress. This illustration depicts the Boston Tea Party.

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    Oct 23, 2024 · Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians.

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    Nov 24, 2023 · The Boston Tea Party was an act of political protest carried out by American colonists on 16 December 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts. Disguised as Mohawk Native Americans, the colonists dumped 342 crates of tea into …

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    Nov 24, 2009 · The midnight raid, popularly known as the “ Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly...

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    The Boston Tea Party On December 16, 1773, members of the Sons of Liberty boarded British cargo ships docked in Boston Harbor, and dumped the tea on board into the sea. 342 chests of tea were destroyed – the entire ships’ cargo …

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    In 1770, the Boston massacre ignited intense scrutiny of the British Regular Army on American shores. Although British Parliament removed government soldiers from Boston and walked back many of their unpopular actions, in …

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    The Boston Tea party marked a critical moment in the history of the American Revolution as an act of colonial defiance against British rule. In Boston harbour, on 16 December 1773, American...

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