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April: The Townshend duties are repealed on all goods except tea. 1772 – June: Gaspée Affair. October: Committee of correspondence established in Boston. 1773 – March: Virginia Intercolonial committee of correspondence established. May: Tea Act passed. [3] December: The Boston Tea Party. [3] 1774 – March: Boston Port Act passed. [3]
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.
On 16 December 1773, a group of Patriot colonists associated with the Sons of Liberty destroyed 342 chests of tea in Boston, Massachusetts, an act that came to be known as the Boston Tea Party. The colonists partook in this action because Parliament had passed the Tea Act , which granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in ...
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.
The Boston Tea Party of 1773 dumped British tea into Boston Harbor because it contained a hidden tax that Americans refused to pay. The British responded by trying to crush traditional liberties in Massachusetts , leading to the launch of the Revolutionary War in 1775.
William Molineux (c. 1713 – October 22, 1774) was a hardware merchant in colonial Boston of Irish descent [citation needed] best known for his role in the Boston Tea Party of 1773 and earlier political protests. Molineux was unusual among the Boston Radical Whigs in having been born in England and emigrating to Massachusetts.
At the time he was addressing a crowd at the Old South Meeting House on the negative health effects of tea drinking. According to the Boston Tea Party Museum, this was probably a diversion intended to help the Tea Party organizers by keeping the crowd in the Meeting House while the tea was being destroyed. [6]
A ship was planning to land tea in Boston on December 16, 1773, and Patriots associated with the Sons of Liberty raided it and dumped all the tea into the harbor. This Boston Tea Party outraged British officials, and the King and Parliament decided to punish Massachusetts by passing the Intolerable Acts in 1774. This closed the port of Boston ...