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Boston Tea Party An American colonist in a blue coat reads a posted notice of a tax on tea with a concerned expression, while a British soldier with a rifle and bayonet stands guard nearby.
Historical illustration of the Boston Tea Party, showing colonists dumping tea chests from a ship into Boston Harbor while a crowd gathers on the shore in the background.
Artist's rendering of the Boston Tea Party shows colonists on a ship throwing crates of tea into Boston Harbor, with a crowd watching from the shore and colonial buildings in the background. Boston Tea Party broadside
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Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company. The Townshend Acts passed by Parliament in 1767 and imposing duties on various products imported into the British colonies had...

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