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= The Tea Act And Boston Tea Party =

The Tea Act
The Tea Act was passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773. It was designed to make the East India Company the only company to sell tea. This tea was shipped directly to the colonies and sold at a bargain price. Colonists in Philadelphia and New York turned the tea ships back to Britain. In Charleston the cargo was left to rot on the docks. In Boston the Royal Governor was stubborn and held the ships in port, where the colonists would not allow them to unload. Ships with cargoes of tea filled the harbor, and the British ship's crews were stalled in Boston looking for work and often finding trouble. This situation led to the Boston Tea Party.

** The Boston Tea Party **
The Tea Act required that the tax would be collected within 20 days of a ship’s arrival, making December 16 the deadline. Sam Adams let the public know by holding public meetings in the Old South Meeting House. Crowds as large as 5,000 filled the streets. At one of these gatherings, a resolution was written that asked to return the tea. Those tea agents, some of them relatives of the governor, refused. On December 16, the ship's owner reported his inability to depart from Boston to the Old South. With the news, Adams gave a signal to the group and loud Indian war whoops broke out. A group of 50 men(known as the Sons of Liberty), unconvincingly disguised as Mohawk Indians, moved the short distance to Griffin’s Wharf where they took three ships. The vessels were boarded, the cargo carefully taken from the holds and placed on the decks. There, 342 chests were split open and thrown into the harbor.

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 * === **The French And Indian War** === || === **1754-1763** === ||
 * === **The Stamp Act Congress** === || === **October 7,1765** === ||
 * === **The Boston Massacre** === || === **March 5, 1770** === ||
 * === **The Tea Act** === || === **May 10, 1773** === ||
 * === **The Boston Tea Party** === || === **December 17, 1773** === ||
 * === **The Intolerable Acts** === || === **1774** === ||
 * === **The 1st Continental Congress** === || === **September 5, 1774** === ||
 * === **The Battles Of Lexington And Concord** === || === **April 19, 1775** === ||
 * === **2nd Continental Congress** === || === **May 10, 1775** === ||
 * === **Declaration Of Independence** === || === **July 4,1776** === ||
 * === **Battles Of Saratoga** === || === **1777** === ||
 * === **George Washington Is President** === || === **1789** === ||