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2. Boston Tea Party - Wikipedia

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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. [2] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.

3. The Best American Placess for Traveling Back in Time - AOL

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   More expensive tickets allow a visit to the Plimoth Grist Mill, constructed in 1636, for everything you could ever want to know about corn grinding. ... Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum.

4. When tea was big trouble: Ship bound for Boston Tea Party ...

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   The 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party was already on the boil, with all sorts of commemorative programs on Cape and a splashy reenactment slated for Dec. 16 at the Boston Tea Party Ships ...

5. Celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party with ...

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   Join the South Dennis Free Public Library for a Boston Tea Party party at 10 a.m. on Dec. 16. A scavenger hunt, games and crafts will commence and cookies and tea will be served to guests.

6. Beaver (ship) - Wikipedia

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   Beaver, one of the ships involved in the Boston Tea Party in 1773; Beaver (1793 ship) was launched on the Thames in 1793. She traded between London and Canada but in 1796 she became a whaler in the Southern whale fishery. The Spanish captured her in 1797. Beaver (1796 ship) was launched in 1796 at Liverpool. She made seven complete voyages as a ...

7. Chestertown Tea Party - Wikipedia

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   The Chestertown Tea Party was a protest against British excise duties which, according to local legend, [1] took place in May 1774 in Chestertown, Maryland, as a response to the British Tea Act. Chestertown tradition holds that, following the example of the more famous Boston Tea Party, colonial patriots boarded the brigantine Geddes in broad ...

8. Boston Tea Party 250th anniversary: City to re-enact key ...

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   Boston is set to re-enact a defiant act of political and mercantile sabotage that set the US colonies on a course to revolution. Boston Tea Party 250th anniversary: City to re-enact key moment in ...

9. John Crane (soldier) - Wikipedia

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   At the harbor, Crane was in the hold of a ship when he was knocked unconscious by a crate of tea that fell on him. Taking him for dead, his companions hid him under a pile of wood shavings in a carpenter's shop near the wharf, but he soon recovered. Crane moved to Providence, Rhode Island, in 1774 because the Boston Port Bill harmed his business.