The Boston Tea Party, a protest against punitive British taxes that directly to open hostilities in the American Revolution 16 months later, unfolded on this day in history, Dec. 16, 1773.
, a euphemistic name for a dangerous escalation of hostilities between colonists and crown, erupted on the Massachusetts coast on this day in history, Dec. 16, 1773. and future U.S. president John Adams wrote to friend and follow revolutionary James Warren the day after the protest.
The Boston Tea Party unfolded in the wake of the latest in a long list of punitive measures taken by Parliament against the colonies, and against pugnacious tinderbox of rebellion Boston in particular."Parliament authorized the Tea Act on 10 May 1773," reports the Massachusetts Historical Society. Massachusetts colonists, with the memory of the 1770 Boston Massacre still fresh in their minds, recoiled in anger at the measure.
"That night, a large group of men — many reportedly members of the Sons of Liberty — disguised themselves in Native American garb, boarded the docked ships and threw 342 chests of tea into the water."
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