USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor . The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly. The episode escalated into the American Revolution, becoming an iconic event of American history.

Detailed explanation-2: -That night, a large group of men-many reportedly members of the Sons of Liberty-disguised themselves in Native American garb, boarded the docked ships and threw 342 chests of tea into the water.

Detailed explanation-3: -After a public meeting led by Samuel Adams and attended by thousands of Boston citizens to protest the tax, a group of disguised Sons of Liberty boarded the ships holding tea cargoes in Boston harbor and threw every chest of tea overboard.

Detailed explanation-4: -In response, the Sons of Liberty organized and carried out the Boston Tea Party, during which they dumped 342 chests of British East India Company tea into Boston Harbor. This infuriated the British and helped spark the Revolutionary War.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.