Boston Tea Party
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- We want different tea!
- Us Sons of Liberty will END this injustice!
- Everybody must buy from this brand of tea for our taxes!
- Dump all the tea!!
- What the heck?
- Um... want some lemonade?
- King George passed the Tea Act, a law that required colonists to buy only one brand of tea, so the Sons of Liberty started a boycott. They would not buy the tea at all until King George put an end to this.
- Mom where is the tea?
- The Sons of Liberty decided to make a change by getting to the port before the ship could unload tea. They all dumped 1,000,000 dollars in today's money worth of tea into the Boston Harbor.
- Go ahead, we're used to this.
- Colonists all over Boston were required to house soldiers until they payed 1,000,000 dollars in return for the damage.
- Since when did fish swim in tea?
- But the Bostonians still would not buy the tea.
- Some other people in nearby colonies were inspired by the Sons of Liberty's actions and also threw imported tea into the ocean.
- Other people, and animals, were affected by the Boston Tea Party.
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