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Boston Tea Party (1773) Protest by a group of Massachusetts colonists, disguised as Mohawks and led by Samuel Adams, against the Tea Act and, more generally, against "taxation without representation". The Tea Act (1773), passed by the British Parliament, withdrew duty on tea exported to the colonies. The effect of the Boston tea party.
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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 ...
- December 16, 1773; 249 years ago
- Tea Act
- To protest British Parliament's tax on tea. "No taxation without representation."
Oct 27, 2009 · Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated...
On December 16, 1773 at Griffin’s Wharf, a group of approximately 50 Bostonians disguised as Native Americans boarded the ships Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor, and proceeded to dump 342 crates of tea into the Boston harbor. In doing so, they destroyed almost 10 thousand pounds sterling worth of tea—worth about $1.7 million today—that ...
Nov 24, 2023 · Definition. by Harrison W. Mark. published on 24 November 2023. Available in other languages: French. Boston Tea Party. Nathaniel Currier (Public Domain) The Boston Tea Party was an act of political protest carried out by American colonists on 16 December 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts.
