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This riled colonists but the king wasn't done ... Just like that, 92,000 pounds of tea went overboard and the Boston Tea Party became legend. King George III was livid. In the spring of 1774 ...
The Boston Tea Party demonstrates ... ignited by the passage of the Townshend duties in 1767. The colonists resisted these duties so effectively that parliament soon had to repeal them, but ...
The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum offers an immersive experience that takes you back to December 16, 1773, the day when American colonists protested against British taxation by dumping 342 ...
Washington loves a leaker. An “unidentified source” who’s willing to spill the beans and dish on his boss or colleagues.
As one of the nation’s most iconic events, the Boston Tea Party marked a turning point in the struggle for independence, uniting the colonists, and ultimately leading to the American Revolution.
On Dec. 16, 1773, American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Co., into the Boston harbor.
When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...
St. Lawrence County legislators want to celebrate the more than 300 Revolutionary War patriots burned in St. Lawrence County ...
Although he had not liked his fellow colonists' destructive response to the Stamp Act eight years earlier, John Adams applauded the Boston Tea Party. He wrote in his Diary, "There is a Dignity ...
December 16: In the event known as the Boston Tea Party, colonists disguised as Indians dump imported tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxes on the product. Suspected participants include Samuel ...