WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -To protest the Tea Act of 1773, colonists disguised as Mohawks raided ships and dumped ninety thousand pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.

Detailed explanation-2: -All those who participated in throwing tea from English ships into the Boston Harbor disguised themselves as Indians in hopes that their identities would stay unknown. Many of the Sons of Liberty did not participate in the Boston Tea Party because they were so recognizable, even with a disguise.

Detailed explanation-3: -American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation, ” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists.

Detailed explanation-4: -RISA GOLUBOFF: That would be the Boston Tea Party. In 1773, colonists famously protested taxation without representation by dressing up as Native Americans to dump tea imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.