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book: Give Me Liberty! An American History Second Edition by Eric Foner
Approximately 342 chests of tea were dumped overboard during the Boston Tea Party.
The Boston Tea Party
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.
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!!!
At the Boston Tea Party, a group of men, disguised as Indians, boarded ships that were carrying tea and they dumped the tea overboard.
Boston Harbor...Boston, MA! Sons of Liberty Disguised themselves as Indians and they dumped 342 chests of tea
The Boston tea party occurred when people were upset that they were being taxed but were unable to vote for Parliament- they were tired of "taxation without representation". So on the day of December 16, 1773 many people went and dumped a shipment of tea into the Boston harbor. The Sons of Liberty dressed up like Native Americans and dumped 346 chests of tea overboard to rebel against high taxes on tea.
December 16, 1773. Right before midnight. They dumped 341 chests of tea to the Boston harbor ruining thousands of dollars of wasted tea.
The significant event in American history that involved the destruction of tea chests during the Boston Tea Party was a protest against the British Tea Act of 1773, where American colonists dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to oppose British taxation without representation.
The Boston Tea Party was when between 30 and 130 men, some disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded three different British Tea ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. This happened on December 16, 1773.
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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