Boston Tea Party
Submitted by rahul707 on December 17, 2008
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Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against the British Government in which they destroyed many crates of tea belonging to the British East India Company and dumped it in Boston Harbor. The incident, which took place on December 16, 1773, was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution and remains an iconic event of American history.
Background
As Europeans developed a taste for tea in the 17th century, rival companies were formed to import the product from the East Indies.[1] In 1698, the Parliament of Great Britain gave the British East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea into Great...
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