They didn't dress up. This is part of the fable. The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the lowering of the cost of the British tea by the government and the East India tea company who had gotten a bail out from the crown in 1773. The smugglers in the colonies found the Dutch tea that they sold was higher in price than the British tea, so they staged the Boston Tea Party and others in harbors in the colonies ( Hamilton was one of the largest smugglers in the colonies and a founding member of the Son's of Liberty). The cost of tea also went as far back as the Navigation Acts and the restricting of trade to and from the colonies passed from 1650-1733. Tea was also taxed in 1767 in the Townsend Acts.
The colonists use feathers to disguise themselves so the English thought that they were indians
At the original Boston Tea Party, the participants were disguised as Indians.
The Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians.
The Patriots disguised themselves by dressing up as local Native Americans
They dressed up as Native Americans.
The Boston Massacre happened at night on March 5, 1770.
Most of the Boston Tea Party participants brought a disguise to make them look like Indians.
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George Robert Twelves Hewes was one of them.
They were written as a response to the Boston Tea Party, to punish the colonists for rebellious actions.
Mohawk Indians
Some of the colonists dressed up as Indians to disguise themselves, and threw crates of tea off the British ships coming into Boston, into the harbor.
Some of the colonists dressed up as Indians to disguise themselves, and threw crates of tea off the British ships coming into Boston, into the harbor.
No. He was not a Son's of Liberty member and they did not disguise themselves as Native Americans. This is part of the fable we know as the Boston Tea party.
What the colonists did to protect themselves from the actions of Parliament between 1765 and 1775 was to protest. They also refused to import the English goods. A good example of this was the Boston Tea Party.
The Boston Massacre happened at night on March 5, 1770.
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The Boston Massacre was a symbol for the Colonists to rebel, but, the British were shooting only to defend themselves. There was also the Boston Tea Party, in which Colonists (dressed as Native Americans) threw tea into Boston harbor, to protest the tea tax.
Most of the Boston Tea Party participants brought a disguise to make them look like Indians.
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