1773 : The Boston Tea Party
In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as
Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of
tea into the harbor.
The midnight raid, popularly known as the "Boston Tea Party," was in
protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed
to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea
tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. The
low tax allowed the East India Company to undercut even tea smuggled
into America by Dutch traders, and many colonists viewed the act as
another example of taxation tyranny.
When three tea ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver,
arrived in Boston Harbor, the colonists demanded that the tea be
returned to England. After Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson
refused, Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the "tea party" with
about 60 members of the Sons of Liberty, his underground resistance
group. The British tea dumped in Boston Harbor on the night of
December 16 was valued at some $18,000.
Parliament, outraged by the blatant destruction of British property,
enacted the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, in
1774. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping,
established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made
British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and
required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists
subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a
united American resistance to the British.
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General Interest
1773 : The Boston Tea Party
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1811 : Earthquake rocks the American wilderness
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1920 : Earthquake devastates Gansu province of China
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1944 : Battle of the Bulge begins
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1971 : Pakistani forces defeated in Bangladesh
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In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as
Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of
tea into the harbor.
The midnight raid, popularly known as the "Boston Tea Party," was in
protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed
to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea
tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. The
low tax allowed the East India Company to undercut even tea smuggled
into America by Dutch traders, and many colonists viewed the act as
another example of taxation tyranny.
When three tea ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver,
arrived in Boston Harbor, the colonists demanded that the tea be
returned to England. After Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson
refused, Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the "tea party" with
about 60 members of the Sons of Liberty, his underground resistance
group. The British tea dumped in Boston Harbor on the night of
December 16 was valued at some $18,000.
Parliament, outraged by the blatant destruction of British property,
enacted the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, in
1774. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping,
established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made
British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and
required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists
subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a
united American resistance to the British.
history.com/tdih.do
General Interest
1773 : The Boston Tea Party
history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihVideoCategory&id=5604
1811 : Earthquake rocks the American wilderness
history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=5605
1920 : Earthquake devastates Gansu province of China
history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=5606
1944 : Battle of the Bulge begins
history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=7113
1971 : Pakistani forces defeated in Bangladesh
history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=5607
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