BOSTON, MA – Just in time for Independence Day, America’s most patriotic holiday, the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, which tells the story of “the single most important event leading up to the Ameri ...
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Understanding the Boston Tea Party in One Minute
On December 16, 1773, American colonists protested British taxation by boarding ships in Boston Harbor and dumping 342 chests of tea into the water, an event known as the Boston Tea Party. This act of ...
The American colonies were forced to pay a tax — tariff — on tea, which ignited the American Revolution. On Dec. 16, 1773, American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without ...
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