USA HISTORY

THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774

BOSTON MASSACRE DECLARATORY TOWNSHEND ACTS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In this event, colonists disguised as Native Americans dumped 340 tea chests into Boston Harbor?
A
Boston Massacre
B
Boston Tea Party
C
Stamp Act Protests
D
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation, ” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

Detailed explanation-2: -on the night of December 16, 1773 to disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians, board three ships moored in Boston Harbor, and destroy over 92, 000 pounds of British East India Company tea. First edition of the Tea Act of 1773.

Detailed explanation-3: -Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians.

Detailed explanation-4: -Protesters, some disguised as Indigenous Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. To protest British Parliament’s tax on tea. “No taxation without representation.” The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.

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