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ch4aika [34]
3 years ago
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Why did the colonists choose to throw British tea in the Boston Harbor? How much did they throw overboard?​

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cricket20 [7]3 years ago
3 0
American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists.
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