dec 16, 1773 - Boston Tea Party
Description:
To demonstrate their disgust with the taxation (without representation) of tea imposed in the colonists as well as protest the monopoly of the East India Company. A group of colonists dressed as Mohawk Native Americans boarded the cargo ships and dumped crates of tea into the Boston harbor. This is one of teh most well know acts of resistance excecuted by teh American Colonists leading up to teh Revolutionary WarAdded to timeline:
Date:
dec 16, 1773
Now
~ 251 years ago