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- People living in the British colonies during the late 1700s believed that the British government had no right to tax them if they had no representation in the British Parliament. The problem was that the French and Indian War had cost the British government a lot of money and taxing the colonists was one way to try and recover some of that cost. Many new taxes were put in place to help pay for the war. The Tea Act was passed in 1773 which placed a tax on British tea. While there were lots of protests and boycotts against the Tea Act the most famous occurred in Boston on December 16, 1773 and is known as the Boston Tea Party. A group of colonists boarded ships carrying British Tea and destroyed the cargo.
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- I think that is all of it.
- The Boston Tea PartyDec. 16, 1773
- Just don't hurt my boat please.
- Destroy all of the tea.
- The immediate impact of the Boston Tea Party was that Boston Harbor was shut down by the British until all of the over 300 chests of tea had been paid for. This was part of a new set of laws that became knows as the Intolerable Acts. The result was the colonists felt more unified as a separate country and less like British citizens. The eventually effect was that the First Continental Congress met in September and October of 1774 to petition (ask) the British government to repeal the Intolerable Acts. When the British refused, the events that would lead to the declaration of American independence and eventually to the American Revolution that began in April of 1775 less than two years after the Boston Tea Party.
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