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dec 16, 1773 - Boston Tea Act

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On this night Samuel Adams and the sons of liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chest of tea overboard. This resulted in the Passage of Punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.

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dec 16, 1773
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~ 252 years ago