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How did tea and taxes spark a revolution? and other questions about the Boston Tea Party
On a cold evening in December 1773, a group of men climbed aboard three ships docked in Boston Harbor. Armed with hatchets, the men began breaking into the ships' valuable cargo'342 crates of tea. They dumped the tea into the black water of the harbor and then marched back home through the city streets. This 'Boston Tea Party' was a bold act of protest by American colonists against British rule. It pushed the colonies and Great Britain a step closer to war. But who were these protestors' Why would they risk angering the powerful British government' And how did the British respond' Discover the facts about the Boston Tea Party and the colonists' struggle for independent rule.
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- "On a cold evening in December 1773, a group of men climbed aboard three ships docked in Boston Harbor. Armed with hatchets, the men began breaking into the ships' valuable cargo'342 crates of tea. They dumped the tea into the black water of the harbor and then marched back home through the city streets. This 'Boston Tea Party' was a bold act of protest by American colonists against British rule. It pushed the colonies and Great Britain a step closer to war. But who were these protestors' Why would they risk angering the powerful British government' And how did the British respond' Discover the facts about the Boston Tea Party and the colonists' struggle for independent rule."@en
- "Discusses how and why American colonists protested high taxes from Great Britain by dumping tea in Boston Harbor in 1773, as well as the ramifications of their actions."