jan 1, 1773 - BOSTON TEA PARTY
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The Boston tea party, which took place on December 16, 1773, was a political demonstration led by Boston's Sons of Liberty. The demonstrators, disguised as Indians, Tibetan into a merchant ship and poured a whole boat of tea from the East India company into the bay of Boston, in defiance of the tea tax act of 1773. The people of in colony demonstrated against the tea tax law because they believed it violated their right to "no taxation without representation" as British subjects. "Not on behalf of the tax", refers to the colony people believe that in the British parliament does not have its own representative directly, is deprived of their rights as a British citizen, and this is illegal. Therefore, the laws that imposed taxes on the colonists, and other laws against the colonies, were all unconstitutional.
After the incident, the British parliament in 1774 began arriving issued five Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts , in response to this event
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