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  2. 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 British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the ...

  3. Apr 18, 2024 · The Boston Tea Party took place on the night of December 16, 1773, a few years before the start of the American Revolution in 1775. It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea (which had been an example of taxation without representation) and ...

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  4. Oct 27, 2009 · Updated: December 6, 2023 | Original: October 27, 2009. copy page link. Print Page. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773,...

  5. The Boston Tea Party refers to an incident in December 1773 when between 40-50 Sons of Liberty boarded British ships in Boston Harbour and destroyed 340 crates of British-owned tea. 2. Recent legislation called the Tea Act allowed the British East India Company to ship its tea directly to the colonies, allowing cheaper sales to undercut the ...

  6. It happened on December 16, 1773. [2] The Boston Tea Party was an act of protest against the British for the Tea Act, one of several new attempts to tax colonists. The Americans had no one to speak for them in the British government. They were frustrated that they were being taxed by the government but had no part in how the government was run.

  7. It is one of the most iconic scenes in the American epoch—defiant colonists dumping crates of tea into Boston Harbor during the night of December 16, 1773.

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