dec 16, 1773 - Boston Tea Party
Description:
A protest organized by the Sons of Liberty in Boston to object to the Tea Act and the tea tax. A group of them dressed up as Mohawk warriors and boarded a boat in Boston loaded with tea and dumped 10,000 pounds of tea into the harbor in front of thousands of spectators. The colonists saw it as an act of defiance against unfair taxation, but the British were outraged at the act. They passed harsh laws almost immediately after as a punitive measure for Massachusetts colonists, known as the Coercive or Intolerable Acts.Added to timeline:
Date:
dec 16, 1773
Now
~ 251 years ago