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In late 1774, colonial activists in Boston staged a direct-action protest that became a defining episode in the imperial crisis. Disguised as Indigenous people, they boarded thr...
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In late 1774, colonial activists in Boston staged a direct-action protest that became a defining episode in the imperial crisis. Disguised as Indigenous people, they boarded thr...
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In the winter of 1773, American protesters in Boston destroyed a shipment of tea to oppose British taxes and trade rules. The British government responded with decisive, forcefu...
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In the decade before 1773, British leaders faced large debts from the Seven Years’ War and sought new revenue from American colonies. Parliament introduced a series of taxes a...
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The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was a political protest in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773, in which American colonists, frustrated by British taxation and trade restri...
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On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of American colonists in Boston disguised as Native Americans boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into...
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