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The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773.
The Boston Tea Party arose from two issues confronting the British Empire in 1773: the financial problems of the British East India Company, and an ongoing dispute about the extent of Parliament's authority, if any, over the British American colonies without seating any elected representation. The North Ministry's attempt to resolve these issues produced a showdown that would eventually result in revolution.
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How did colonists defy britains attempts at regulation and taxation?
Boston tea party
The colonists fury over taxation cliimaxed how?
Boston Tea Party
Did the colonists get taxed after the Boston Tea Party?
After the boston tea party the king taxed all the tea in the colonies.
Some colonists celebrated the dramatic act of defiance known as the?
Boston tea party and stamp act
When colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act?
Boston tea party
Tea Act led colonists to?
the boston tea party
Who name the Boston Tea Party?
the colonists
Was there a king in the Boston tea party?
No, what are you talking about? The Boston Tea Party was a rebellion of the colonists against England and their taxes.
What was it called When the colonists dumped tea into the Boston harbor to protest the tea act?
The Boston Tea Party
Was the Boston tea party a war?
The Boston Tea Party was actually not a war. Here is what it was, and what happened. The Tea Act passed. The colonists did not want to pay taxes. So, here is where the Boston Tea Party kicks in, one year after the Tea Act. Here is what you've been waiting for! The Boston Tea Party was an event that was three boats full of colonists. They cut open chests of tea and they dumped it in the Boston Harbor (harr-berr)! The colonists had to pay it off. So, the colonists named that law the Intolerable(in-toll-err-a-bowl) Act. So, the Boston Tea Party was not a war, but it was an event that the colonists responded to the Tea Act.
What were the colonists rebelling against in the Boston tea party?
They did not buy tea.
How did the colonists show their dislikes?
Boston tea party
