Casting Tea Overboard in Boston Harbor

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The Boston Tea Party was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against the British Government in which they destroyed many crates of tea belonging to the British East India Company on ships in Boston Harbor.

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American Revolution, colony, Boston Tea Party, American protest, British government

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1763-1788 American Revolution Events, Events in Massachusetts History

Source

Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 1) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)

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