Who dumped tea overboard?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

so they could swim and drink tea out of the harbor

Answer 8

The people in the Boston Tea party.

Answer 9

in the water