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When: December 16, 1773

What: In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.

Why significant: The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen to "No taxation without representation", that is, to be taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a British parliament in which they were not represented.

The Boston Tea Party was a significant event in the growth of the American Revolution. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, which ended local self-government in Massachusetts and closed Bostons commerce. Colonists in turn responded to the Coercive Acts with additional acts of protest, and by convening the First Continental Congress, which petitioned the British monarch for repeal of the acts and coordinated colonial resistance to them. The crisis escalated, and the American Revolutionary War began near Boston in 1775.

Tags: American Revolution, Boston Tea Party, the Sons of Liberty, the British Parliament』s Tea Act of 1773, the Coercive Acts, the first Continental Congress

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