Boston Tea Party

The Boston tea party  is not a tea party! 

The British government  passed a law called the Tea Act. The people from the colonies did not like the law. 

Then a ship came to Boston and the ships was named Darthmouth. The ship was full of tea and two more ships that carried tea came. A group of people called the Sons of Liberty protested this. Then on December 16,1773, about a 100 people of the Sons of Liberty got onto the 3 ships and dumped 342 tea chests into the Boston Harbour. This was done in 3 hours at night!

So the British government stopped Boston commerce. Then all the people from the 13 colonies kept protesting. This led to the American Revolutionary War.

I found this story uplifting.
 

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