Boston Tea Party

American colonists dressed up in Indians

3 ships arrived in the port full of tea

At night, the colonists threw 342 chests of tea overboard

December 16th,1773

Boston's Harbor

Massachussets

New England colonies

unfair taxation of tea by the British

Colonies: no representation in British Parliament

Boston's Massacre

-> (American Independence)

Locking of the port until the tea was paid

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