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During the Boston Tea Party which occurred on December 16, 1773 roughly 342 crates of tea were split open and dumped into the harbor. The Boston Harbor was a HUGE tea pot!!!
There were 50,000 chests of tea dumped into the Boston harbor during this time. This was a lot of tea to the point that the message was made clear.
Many colonists protested the Tea Act. On December 16, 1773 a group of colonists in Boston dressed as Native Americans. They boarded three Tea ships. They dumped 342 chests of Tea into the Boston Harbor. Several colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to Boycott or Protest the Tea act.
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342 crates were dumped in the harbor.
342 chests of tea
The group of people which believed that the should have the freedom called "The Sons of Liberty" dumped 342 casks of tea, about 42 tons. In that day, it was worth between $1,900,000 and $6,000,000.
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