dec 16, 1773 - Boston Tea Party

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The Boston Tea Party was a protest by the Sons of Liberty lead by Samuel Adams in response to the British giving the British East India company a monopoly on the selling of tea in the American colonies. This event was unfavorable to the colonists because it resulted in the Coercive/Intolerable acts rather than a repealing of the tax on teas as they had hoped.

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