The Boston Tea Party was an act of political protest carried out by American colonists on 16 December 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts. Disguised as Mohawk Native Americans, the colonists dumped 342 crates of tea into Boston Harbor to protest both a tax on tea and the monopoly of the British East India Company on the tea trade.
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16 Dec 1773A party of colonial Bostonians, some dressed as Mohawks, dump 342 crates of tea into Boston Harbor, in the Boston Tea Party.
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16 Dec 1773The Boston Tea Party protest occurs in response to the Townshend Acts when Colonial Patriots dressed as Native Americans throw over 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor during the American Revolution. The protest heightened hostilities between the original Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain, leading up to the American Revolutionary War.
