The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [2] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts .

2009年10月27日 · 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...

Boston Tea Party, precursor to the American Revolution in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians on December 16, 1773.

2023年11月24日 · The Boston Tea Party was a protest against British taxation, carried out by Bostonian colonists on 16 December 1773. The colonists, some of whom were dressed as Mohawk Native Americans, dumped 340 crates of tea into Boston Harbor.

On December 16, 1773, members of the boarded British cargo ships docked in Boston Harbor, and dumped the tea on board into the sea. 342 chests of tea were destroyed – the entire ships’ cargo – worth more than $1m in today’s money.

2024年8月17日 · The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that took place on the night of December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. A mob organized by the Sons of Liberty raided three ships and threw all of the tea they were carrying into Boston Harbor.

2009年11月24日 · The midnight raid, popularly known as the “ Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly...

What was the Boston Tea Party? On Monday morning, the 29th of November, 1773, a handbill was posted all over Boston, containing the following words: "Friends! Brethren! Countrymen!--That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the harbor. Compare different accounts of the same event.

2023年6月30日 · Published on December 24, 1773, this article describes the meeting that the Boston colonists held at the Old South Meetinghouse on December 16, 1773 that led to the Boston Tea Party.

2 天之前 · Although tea was a popular beverage in the United States, Americans began drinking more coffee than tea as a direct result of the Tea Act of 1773, the Boston Tea Party, and the American Revolution. Colonial merchants were angered when Great Britain began taxing goods sold to colonists to help pay for the British administration of the colonies.