THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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dressed as Indians
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snuck onto ships
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threw tea into the Boston Harbor
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard.
Detailed explanation-2: -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colonists were outraged over the tea tax, which had existed since the 1767 Townshend Revenue Act and did not get repealed like the other taxes in 1770, and believed the Tea Act was a tactic to gain colonial support for the tax already enforced.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did colonists protest the Tea Act? At most colonial ports, they prevented the British East India Company from unloading their tea. In Boston, Governor Hutchinson refused to prevent the unloading; at night, men boarded the loaded ship and dumped all the tea into the Boston harbor.