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Boston Tea Party - Wikipedia
25 Jul 2024 at 11:30am
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts .

Boston Tea Party - Facts, Summary & Significance| HISTORY
23 Jul 2024 at 1:24am
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...

Boston Tea Party | Facts, Summary, & Significance | Britannica
25 Jul 2024 at 1:17pm
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.

Boston Tea Party - World History Encyclopedia
25 Jul 2024 at 10:00pm
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 Boston Harbor to protest both a tax on tea and the monopoly of the British East India Company on the tea trade .

The Boston Tea Party | December 16, 1773 | HISTORY
25 Jul 2024 at 2:18am
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...

The Boston Tea Party (article) | Khan Academy
24 Jul 2024 at 9:58am
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.

Boston 1773: The Destruction of the Tea | Massachusetts ...
26 Jul 2024 at 2:17am
The Boston Tea Party helped unite the colonists and inspired them to push for increased American independence. King George and Parliament were furious with the colonists and punished them with yet more acts, known together as the Coercive Acts. The people of Boston did not give in to British pressure.



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