Boston Tea Party

Boston Tea Party

Consequences

Subtopic

Locking of the port until the tea was paid

-> (American Independence)

Causes

Boston's Massacre

Colonies: no representation in British Parliament

unfair taxation of tea by the British

Tea Act

Slogan

Where ?

New England colonies

Massachussets

Boston's Harbor

When ?

December 16th,1773

What ?

At night, the colonists threw 342 chests of tea overboard

3 ships arrived in the port full of tea

Dartmouth/Beather/Eleanor

Who ?

American colonists dressed up in Indians

< Sons of Liberty

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