250 Years Ago Today Was the Boston Tea Party

[Weatherman2020]

46 tons of tea was thrown into Boston harbor because of the Tea Act of 1773 which gave the British East India Company a monopoly on selling tea, cutting out American merchants and taxing tea. Over 100 colonists dressed as American Indians in a sign that they were American, not British subjects.

There was no looting other than the tea. The only item destroyed on the three ships was a lock, which was replaced the next day by an American Patriot.

In response the British government put further acts of oppression on the colonists driving the colonists further towards war.

These are the 5 types of tea thrown into the harbor that day.

Cheers.

 

[TheParser]

And 250 years later was Mayor Wu's tea party for her carefully selected invitees.

 

[Weatherman2020]

And 250 years later was Mayor Wu's tea party.

That the only blacks invited party?

 

[Unkotare]

In years past, I spent many hours in The Green Dragon.

 

[ReinyDays]

Americans are ANGRY ...

 

[DudleySmith]

The Tea Party pissed off smugglers like John Hancock by cutting the taxes on tea, costing them a fortune from criminal activity. Hancock was a sort of early American Carlo Gambino type, operating a very lucrative smuggling business. And it wasn't just in America, tea and wine smuggling was big business across the English Channel for many decades prior to the 'Revolution'.

 

[Libby von H]

46 tons of tea was thrown into Boston harbor because of the Tea Act of 1773 which gave the British East India Company a monopoly on selling tea, cutting out American merchants and taxing tea. Over 100 colonists dressed as American Indians in a sign that they were American, not British subjects.

There was no looting other than the tea. The only item destroyed on the three ships was a lock, which was replaced the next day by an American Patriot.

In response the British government put further acts of oppression on the colonists driving the colonists further towards war.

These are the 5 types of tea thrown into the harbor that day.

Cheers.
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