Boston Tea Party
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- British Paraliment
- we need taxes the Stamp act and the Townshend Act
- we spent too much during 7 year war
- please oh please no more taxes
- The protest
- no taxation with out representation
- Boston Massacre
- British Parliament decides to tax the colonists, using the Tea Act.
- smuggling tea with Sam Adams
- The colonists form a protest, because they pay taxes but are not allowed to vote on things that affect their lives.
- sons of liberty
- We did not have a vote to put taxes on tea, we have to protest
- Angry colonists take out their frustrations on the British soldiers. Snowballs are thrown at the soldiers. A soldier fires into the crowd and 5 colonists are killed, including a Black man Crispus Attacks.
- Boston Tea Party. 342 chest of tea were thrown overboard.
- Colonists bought tea from the black market which was much cheaper than the taxed tea from East India Company. Tea was smuggled into the colonies to meet demands.
- The Sons of Liberty, secretly plan the Boston Tea Party to show the British they were angry about the Boston Massacre.
- The Sons of Liberty, disguised as Mohawks, board British ships, chop the barrels of tea on board and then toss them overboard. This cost the British almost 1,000,000 dollars in today's money.
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