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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.
The Tea Act 1773 ( 13 Geo. 3. c. 44) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. [1] A related objective was to undercut the price of illegal tea ...
19. The Boston Port Act, also called the Trade Act 1774, [ 1] was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain ( 14 Geo. 3. c. 19) which became law on March 31, 1774, and took effect on June 1, 1774. [ 2] It was one of five measures (variously called the Intolerable Acts, the Punitive Acts or the Coercive Acts) that were enacted during the spring ...
A ship laden with tea was supposed to arrive in Boston in 1773, where its contents would likely have been dumped. ... a monopoly on tea sales in North America. The Tea Act made East India Tea ...
Dunbar House Tea Room, shown here in 2021, will host a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party on Dec. 16. Tickets are $45 per person and reservations can be made online at ...
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 ...
George Robert Twelves Hewes (August 25, 1742 – November 5, 1840) [1] was a participant in the political protests in Boston at the onset of the American Revolution, and one of the last survivors of the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. Later he fought in the American Revolutionary War as a militiaman and privateer. Shortly before his ...
First Continental Congress. The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies held from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia at the beginning of the American Revolution. The meeting was organized by the delegates after the British Navy implemented a blockade of Boston Harbor ...