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The Boston Tea Party

DateFriday, August 23, 2019 at 04:05PM

When Britain taxed tea, colonists proved that they meant it when they said "no taxation without representation!" In December of 1773, patriots snuck onto a ship carrying tea into Boston and threw it into the harbor. Hear all about how that happened, why, and what happened next.

The Destruction of the Tea at Boston Harbor. Lithograph by Nathaniel Currier, 1846. 

1789 engraving of The Destruction of the Tea

This notice from the "Chairman of the Committee for Tarring and Feathering" in Boston denounced the tea consignees as "traitors to their country".

 

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