The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 Also known as: Boston Tea-party · Destruction of the Tea
Community · History Follow the meetings, deadlines, and destruction of tea in Boston Harbor on 16 December 1773. Investigate the East India Company, parliamentary taxation, colonial resistance, and the punitive response that followed.
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