THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -It’s estimated that the protestors tossed more than 92, 000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. That’s enough to fill 18.5 million teabags.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
Detailed explanation-5: -It took nearly three hours for more than 100 colonists to empty the tea into Boston Harbor. The chests held more than 90, 000 lbs. (45 tons) of tea, which would cost nearly $1, 000, 000 dollars today.