# The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773

> 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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## Concepts

### Declaratory Act

The American Colonies Act 1766, commonly known as the **Declaratory Act**, was an act of the **Parliament of Great Britain** which accompanied the repeal of the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765 and the amendment of the Sugar Act 1763 .

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaratory_Act
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaratory_Act?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

### Boston Port Act

The **Boston Port Act**, also called the Trade Act 1774, was an act of the **Parliament of Great Britain** which became law on March 31, 1774, and took effect on June 1, 1774.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Port_Act
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Port_Act?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts

### Committees of correspondence

The committees of **correspondence** were a collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to the **British Parliament** and, later, support for American independence during the American Revolution.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committees_of_correspondence
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committees_of_correspondence?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams

### Faneuil Hall

**Faneuil Hall** is a historic building in Downtown **Boston**, Massachusetts, United States.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faneuil_Hall
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faneuil_Hall?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

### Frederick North, Lord North

**Frederick** **North**, 2nd Earl of Guilford, styled The Honourable Frederick North before 1752 and Lord North between 1752 and 1790, being best known to history by the latter title, was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_North
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_North?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts

### Benjamin Franklin

**Benjamin Franklin** was an American **polymath** active as a physicist, philosopher, statesman and inventor who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_South_Meeting_House
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts

### John Adams

**John Adams** was a **Founding Father** and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

### Paul Revere

**Paul Revere** was an American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the **American Revolutionary War** in Massachusetts, engaging in a midnight ride in 1775 to alert nearby minutemen of the approach of British troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Richard Clarke (merchant)

**Richard Clarke** was a prominent **Boston** merchant and Loyalist in the late eighteenth century.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Clarke_(merchant)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Clarke_(merchant)?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

### Coffin (whaling family)

Some members of the colonial **Coffin** family were whalers, agents, merchants, and traders who were prominent during the **triangular trade** in the United States and Canada.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezekiah_Coffin
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezekiah_Coffin?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

### Nantucket during the American Revolutionary War era

The citizens of **Nantucket during the American Revolutionary War era** relied on **whaling**, industries that supported whaling, and the trade in oil that resulted from that industry.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rotch
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rotch?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### John Rowe (merchant)

**John Rowe** was a property developer and merchant in 18th century **Boston**, Massachusetts.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rowe_(merchant)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rowe_(merchant)?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

### George Robert Twelves Hewes

**George Robert Twelves Hewes** was a participant in the political protests in **Boston** at the onset of the American Revolution, and one of the last survivors of the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Robert_Twelves_Hewes
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Robert_Twelves_Hewes?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Samuel Adams

**Samuel Adams** was an American statesman, **political philosopher**, and a Founding Father of the United States.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_South_Meeting_House

### The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773

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.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://home.nps.gov/articles/000/boston-tea-party-in-real-time.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Harbor
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams

### Tea Act

The **Tea Act** 1773 was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British **East India Company** in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Thomas Hutchinson (governor)

**Thomas Hutchinson** was an American merchant, politician, historian, and colonial administrator who repeatedly served as **governor** of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years leading up to the American Revolution.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hutchinson_(governor)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hutchinson_(governor)?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### First Continental Congress

The **First Continental Congress** was a meeting of delegates of twelve of the **Thirteen Colonies** held from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia at the beginning of the American Revolution.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Intolerable Acts

The **Intolerable Acts**, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the **Boston** Tea Party.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Sons of Liberty

The **Sons of Liberty** was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, **political organization** active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to defend the rights of the colonists, including the right to representation in the British government trying to tax them.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts

### Boston Harbor

**Boston Harbor** is a natural **harbor** and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, located adjacent to Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the Northeastern United States.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Harbor
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Harbor?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts

### John Hancock

**Hancock** was a prominent Boston patriot associated with the **Sons of Liberty** and resistance to British taxation.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams

### Loyal Nine

The **Loyal Nine** helped organize Boston resistance in 1765 and preceded the broader **Sons of Liberty** movement.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyal_Nine
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyal_Nine?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty

### Townshend Acts

The **Tea Act** retained the tea duty associated with the **Townshend** legislation, keeping the taxation dispute alive.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

### East India Company

The **East India Company** (EIC) was an **English**, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed for Indian Ocean trade, initially with the East Indies, and later with East Asia.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts

### Old South Meeting House

The **Old South Meeting House** is a museum and historic church building at 310 Washington Street, on the corner with Milk Street, in the Downtown Crossing area of **Boston**, Massachusetts, United States.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_South_Meeting_House
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_South_Meeting_House?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

## Relationships

- Declaratory Act — related_to → Samuel Adams: Declaratory Act: Samuel Adams
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Declaratory Act: Declaratory Act: The Boston Tea Party
- Boston Port Act — related_to → Intolerable Acts: Boston Port Act: Intolerable Acts
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Boston Port Act: Boston Port Act: The Boston Tea Party
- Committees of correspondence — related_to → Samuel Adams: Committees of correspondence: Samuel Adams
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Committees of correspondence: Committees of correspondence: The Boston Tea Party
- Faneuil Hall — related_to → Boston Harbor: Faneuil Hall: Boston Harbor
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Faneuil Hall: Faneuil Hall: The Boston Tea Party
- Frederick North, Lord North — related_to → Intolerable Acts: Frederick North, Lord North: Intolerable Acts
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Frederick North, Lord North: Frederick North, Lord North: The Boston Tea Party
- Benjamin Franklin — related_to → Old South Meeting House: Benjamin Franklin: Old South Meeting House
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin: The Boston Tea Party
- John Adams — related_to → Samuel Adams: John Adams: Samuel Adams
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → John Adams: John Adams: The Boston Tea Party
- Paul Revere — related_to → Sons of Liberty: Paul Revere: Sons of Liberty
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Paul Revere: Paul Revere: The Boston Tea Party
- Richard Clarke (merchant) — related_to → Boston Harbor: Richard Clarke (merchant): Boston Harbor
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Richard Clarke (merchant): Richard Clarke (merchant): The Boston Tea Party
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Coffin (whaling family): Coffin (whaling family): The Boston Tea Party
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Nantucket during the American Revolutionary War era: Nantucket during the American Revolutionary War era: The Boston Tea Party
- John Rowe (merchant) — related_to → Thomas Hutchinson (governor): John Rowe (merchant): Thomas Hutchinson (governor)
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → John Rowe (merchant): John Rowe (merchant): The Boston Tea Party
- George Robert Twelves Hewes — related_to → Tea Act: George Robert Twelves Hewes: Tea Act
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → George Robert Twelves Hewes: George Robert Twelves Hewes: The Boston Tea Party
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → First Continental Congress: First Continental Congress: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Intolerable Acts: Intolerable Acts: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Boston Harbor: Boston Harbor: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Old South Meeting House: Old South Meeting House: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Thomas Hutchinson (governor): Thomas Hutchinson (governor): people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Samuel Adams: Samuel Adams: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Sons of Liberty: Sons of Liberty: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → East India Company: East India Company: people, places, and context for the episode.
- The Boston Tea Party: One Night in 1773 — related_to → Tea Act: Tea Act: people, places, and context for the episode.
- Sons of Liberty — related_to → Samuel Adams: Adams was a leading Boston organizer associated with the Sons of Liberty…
- Sons of Liberty — related_to → Loyal Nine: The Loyal Nine helped organize Boston resistance in 1765 and preceded the…
- Sons of Liberty — related_to → John Hancock: Hancock was a prominent Boston patriot associated with the Sons of Liberty…
- Tea Act — related_to → Intolerable Acts: Parliament’s response to the destruction of the taxed tea included the coercive…
- Tea Act — related_to → Townshend Acts: The Tea Act retained the tea duty associated with the Townshend legislation,…
- Tea Act — related_to → East India Company: The Tea Act allowed the East India Company to export tea directly…