The Boston Tea Party took place in Boston Harbor on December 16th, 1773. A group of American colonists disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and went to the harbor around midnight. They boarded three British ships and dumped 342 boxes of imported tea into the water. This was in response to Britain's Tea Act tax, aimed at bailing out the East India Company, and an example of "taxation without representation".
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. 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.
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