USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The property damage amounted to the destruction of 92, 000 pounds or 340 chests of tea, reported by the British East India Company worth £9, 659, or $1, 700, 000 dollars in today’s money.

Detailed explanation-2: -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 with axes and dumped into Boston Harbor the night of December 16, 1773.

Detailed explanation-3: -On this evening, Dec. 16, in 1773, dozens of colonists boarded three ships laden with East India Company tea and dumped the entire stock-45 tons of tea, worth roughly $1 million in today’s economy-into the harbor to protest Parliament’s recent Tea Act.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Boston Tea Party was the first significant act of defiance by American colonists. The implication and impact of the Boston Tea Party was enormous ultimately leading to the sparking of the American Revolution which began in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1774, the UK passed what are known as the Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts, a series of punitive measures meant to teach the rebellious colonists who was boss. Much of the tea that angry colonists dumped into the Boston Harbor was green tea.