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The Boston Tea Party occurred on December 16, 1773, as a protest against the Tea Act imposed by the British government, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. Colonists, frustrated by taxation without representation, viewed the act as an affront to their rights. In response, a group of American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water, marking a significant act of defiance that escalated tensions leading up to the American Revolution.

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