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Article: THE BOSTON TEA PARTY.(history)
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- Junior Scholastic
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- November 13, 2000
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Trouble had been brewing for years between Britain and its American Colonies. But the Boston Tea Party of 1773 set off a chain of events that led to the American Revolution.
On a dark December night in 1773, men disguised as Indians boarded three ships anchored in Boston Harbor. Stored in the ships' holds were 340 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company. In three hours, the men dumped all the tea overboard.
Trouble had been growing between Britain and its American Colonies since the 1760s. Britain had imposed taxes on the Colonies. Many Americans responded with the cry "no taxation without representation!"
Then, in 1770, ...