The Boston Tea Party, as it came to be known ... the new taxes met with colonial derision. Then came the Tea Act, passed in May 1773. Agitators like Sam Adams, Paul Revere and the patriot group ...

but in 1773 Parliament passed the Tea Act, which was a little complex but basically cut the tax on tea. Bostonians, in their wisdom, responded by throwing their new cheaper tea in the Boston ...

On December 16, 1773 thousands of Massachusetts colonists gathered at Old South Meeting House in Boston to discuss a shipment of tea that had recently arrived in port from Britain. The arrival of ...

In December 1773, political activists known ... The protest known as the Boston Tea Party was in response to the Tea Act, which, in part, maintained a tax on tea imposed by the British Parliament.

On this day in 1773, in what is known as the Boston Tea Party, the Sons of Liberty (many disguised as Mohawk Indians) threw 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company into ...

This time around, there will be no “Indians” at the Boston Tea Party. On Dec. 16, 1773, some of the 100 to 150 colonists ... since raiding the ships was an act of treason against the Crown. But ...

On Dec. 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty dumped more than 300 crates of tea from the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor to protest “taxation without representation” in British ...

In 1773 rebels unconvincingly disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three docked ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard. England moved swiftly to punish this act of blatant ...

1773) include 3D holograms, talking portraits and the Robinson Tea Chest, an authentic tea chest from the Boston Tea Party. Two of the three ships have been recreated, the Beaver and the Eleanor ...

On Dec. 16, 1773, 241 years ago, angry Boston citizens boarded British ships and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor ... First came the Stamp Act in 1763. Guess what?

In 1773 rebels unconvincingly disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three docked ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard. England moved swiftly to punish this act of blatant ...