dec 16, 1773 - The Boston Tea Party
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Organized by the group, "Sons of Liberty", the Boston Tea Party was, in simple terms, a tax protest. Colonists resented the British ongoing insistence that they could, at will, impose whatever laws, including ones to raise revenue.
Tax measure after tax measure had been passed, protested, and in some cases repealed but mostly ignored, and the 1773 Tea Act was , to the colonists, no different, even though it was never intended as a tax.
Numerous ships had been held in Baston Harbor, and they were loaded with over 200 chests of tea that was meant to be sold at a bargain price. The Sons of Liberty, some of them dressed as Native Americans, boarded a number of the ships and dumped several tons of tea into the harbor to protest.
Britain took swift measures to punish the colonies for this act, and another nail was driven into the coffin of British rule in America.
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