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Boston Tea Party - History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts - 7 views

  • The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor.
  • The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor.
  • It took nearly three hours for more than 100 colonists to empty the tea into Boston Harbor.  The chests held more than 90,000 lbs. (45 tons) of tea, which would cost nearly $1,000,000 dollars today.  
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  • demand that the tea be sent back to England with the duty unpaid
  • Adams and a small group of Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded the ships and jettisoned the tea.
  • origin in Parliament's effort to rescue the financially weakened East India Company
  • adjusted import duties in such a way that the company could undersell even smugglers in the colonies
  • 500,000 pounds of tea were shipped across the Atlantic in September.
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Tea Act - History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts - 2 views

  • If Parliament expected that the lowered cost of tea would mollify the colonists into acquiescing to the Tea Act, it was gravely mistaken. By allowing the East India Company to sell tea directly in the American colonies, the Tea Act cut out colonial merchants, and the prominent and influential colonial merchants reacted with anger.
rskoons

The Boston Massacre - 3 views

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ajlee1

Boston Massacre Historical Society - 0 views

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Boston Massacre Historical Society - 2 views

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etolentino1

Boston Tea Party - 3 views

  • Angry and frustrated at a new tax on tea, American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty and disguised as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three British ships (the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver) and dumped 342 whole crates of British tea into Boston harbor on December 16, 1773. Similar incidents occurred in Maryland, New York, and New Jersey in the next few months, and tea was eventually boycotted throughout the colonies. Related Resources:
nmsnedeker

Boston Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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cjfunaro

Boston Massacre Historical Society - 3 views

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    "The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts."
ajlee1

Revolutionary America! What Was the Problem? A Massacre and Tea Party in Boston - 0 views

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jnmccarthy

Boston Massacre Site | City of Boston - 1 views

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  • A minor dispute between a wigmaker's young apprentice and a British sentry turned into a riot.
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    A couple of facts. Says how it started.
jadowd

Boston Tea Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

  • On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
  • On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
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