Boston_Tea_Party

=Boston Tea Party=

On December 16, 1773, roughly a hundred Bostonians, loosely disguised as Indians, boarded docked British Tea ships, smashed open 342 chests of tea, and dumped their contents into the Atlantic. A crowd of several hundred watched approvingly from the shore as Boston harbor became a vast teapot. The Indian disguise provided protesters with a threatening image and a convenient way of avoiding detection. Tea was the perfect item to rally around as almost every colonist, rich or poor, consumed this delectable imported beverage.



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