THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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The Sons of Liberty snuck on board and threw all of the tea overboard
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Native Americans set fire to the tea ships
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The Boston colonists unloaded all of the tea without complaining
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The British soldiers forced the colonists to let them unload the tea
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea (which had been an example of taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.
Detailed explanation-2: -Governor Thomas Hutchison refused to allow the ships to return to Britain and ordered the tea tariff be paid and the tea unloaded. The colonists refused, and Hutchison never offered a satisfactory compromise. READ MORE: Who Were the Sons of Liberty?
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Seventeen Million Pounds of Unsold Tea American colonists were outraged over the tea tax, which had existed since the 1767 Townshend Revenue Act and did not get repealed like the other taxes in 1770, and believed the Tea Act was a tactic to gain colonial support for the tax already enforced.