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dec 16, 1773 - Boston Tea Party

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Political and economic protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts; targeted the Tea Act, which colonists felt violated their right to give consent to taxation placed by the British; demonstrators destroyed an entire shipment of Tea sent by the East India Company by boarding the ships and throwing the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor

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dec 16, 1773
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~ 252 years ago