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A group known as the â??Sons of Libertyâ?? dressed like Mohawk Indians, boarded three British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 crates of tea into the water. Their usual tactics had been to scare off the ships by threats of violence to the captain and crew. However this time they demanded the ships return to England, while the British governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson ordered them to stay.

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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.

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At around midnight on December 16th 1773 a small group of Massachusetts Patriots, dressed as Mohawk Indians, led by Samuel Adams boarded and raided three British Tea ships. They seized 342 chests of tea and threw them into the harbour. MORE : The story above it just that. A fable. The British had LOWERED the tax making the price of the English tea cheaper than the Dutch tea sold by the colonial smugglers. The Boston Tea Party was organized to save the smugglers from economic ruin. Without the smugglers there would have not been a revolution. It was an economic issue and self preservation. The smugglers thought it unfair that their economic fortunes should be determined by a government thousands of miles away. Two of the biggest smugglers Hancock and Hamilton supported the Son's of Liberty and organized the tea party. The small tax increases had little impact on the average colonist and they paid less in taxes than their counterparts in England. This was an economic issue pure and simple.

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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.

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about 150 colonists from Boston, Massachusetts dumped approximately 18000 pounds of tea into the harbor

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This was the Americans way of protesting for the high taxes the British were charging on tea. There are many things that led them to this such as the stamp act.

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so they could swim and drink tea out of the harbor

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The people in the Boston Tea party.

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in the water

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How many chest of tea was dumped overboard during the Boston tea party?

Approximately 342 chests of tea were dumped overboard during the Boston Tea Party.


Who dumped British tea into Boston harbor?

The colonists.They disguised themselves as Indians and used tomahawks to the 342 trunks containg tea then dumped it overboard.


Again what happend at the Boston Tea Party?

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Is it true that the Boston tea party was held to greet new immigrants to the colonies?

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What tea was dumped into the harbor?

englands taxed tea was dumped into the Boston harbor


What colone dumped the tea in the ocean?

150 colonists dumped the tea into the ocean


When did the colonists dumped the tea?

The colonist dumped tea because the British were taxing them


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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.


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