THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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$75, 000
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$76, 000
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$65, 000
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$77, 000
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Detailed explanation-1: -The damage the Sons of Liberty caused by destroying 340 chests of tea, in today’s money, was worth more than $1, 700, 000 dollars. The British East India Company reported £9, 659 worth of damage caused by the Boston Tea Party. According to some modern estimates, the destroyed tea could have brewed 18, 523, 000 cups of tea!
Detailed explanation-2: -On December 16, 1773, over one hundred American colonists dressed as Native Americans boarded three merchant ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea (valued at approximately $1.7 million in today’s currency) into the water.
Detailed explanation-3: -As the Tea Act allowed the tea to be shipped directly to the colonies the price of tea became 9 pence per pound cheaper even with the 3 pence per pound tax retained from the Townshend Duties.
Detailed explanation-4: -340 chests of British East India Company Tea, weighing over 92, 000 pounds (roughly 46 tons), onboard the Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor were smashed open by the Sons of Liberty armed with an assortment of axes and dumped into Boston Harbor the night of December 16, 1773.