2007-05-23 08:46:44 · 8 answers · asked by Desi_Fly_Chick 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The colonists started with boycotts, and then "On Thursday, December 16, 1773, the evening before the tea was due to be landed, on a signal given by Samuel Adams, the Sons of Liberty thinly disguised as Mohawk Indians, left the massive protest meeting and headed toward Griffin's Wharf, where lay HMS Dartmouth and her newly arrived, tea bearing, sister ships HMS Beaver and HMS Eleanour. Swiftly and efficiently casks of tea were brought up from the hold to the deck, reasonable proof that some of the "Indians" were, in fact, longshoremen. The casks were opened and the tea dumped overboard; the work, lasting well into the night, was quick, thorough, and efficient. By dawn 90,000 lbs (45 tons) of tea worth an estimated £10,000 had been consigned to waters of Boston harbor.[1] Nothing else had been damaged or stolen, except a single padlock accidentally broken and anonymously replaced not long thereafter. Tea washed up on the shores around Boston for weeks."
2007-05-23 08:56:39 · answer #1 · answered by Critta 205 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Boston Tea Party was the Colonists' response to the tea tax.
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2007-05-23 09:01:52 · answer #2 · answered by No one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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The Tea Act, passed in 1773, allowed the British East India Company to sell tea to the colonies without the usual colonial tax, thereby allowing them to undercut the prices of the colonial merchants and smugglers. Because many people, including John Hancock earned their living from smuggling, they did not like the monopoly created by the British East India Company. This act led to the Boston Tea Party where American colonists threw 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. This act united the colonies even more in their frustrations against Britain, and was but one of the many causes of the American Revolution.
2016-04-04 02:49:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tea Act Reaction
2016-10-31 06:07:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The colonists dressed up as indians in the night they went ou to the boat with all of tea had on it and dumped it all into the sea. Nobody accept the loylets wanted to pay taxes on some tea they didn't want.
2007-05-23 09:12:45 · answer #5 · answered by Aj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By throwing tons of tea into the harbor hence the Boston Tea Party!
2007-05-23 08:53:29 · answer #6 · answered by BVEEZER 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Boston Tea party, when they threw the tea into the sea.
2007-05-23 09:06:02 · answer #7 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they dressed as indians,hopped on the ship and threw the tea in the water then the british got MAD.
2007-05-23 08:56:11 · answer #8 · answered by Andrew W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋