I think we all need a little bit of this puzzle on April 16th. At least those of us in the USA do. How much did you pay on your taxes? haha never mind. We all know what happened.
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that took place on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution. It was a response to the Tea Act of 1773, which was imposed by the British Parliament, granting the British East India Company a monopoly on tea imports into the American colonies. Colonists were outraged by this act because it maintained the tax on tea while giving the East India Company an unfair advantage over colonial merchants.
During the Boston Tea Party, a group of colonists, disguised as Native Americans, boarded three British ships docked in Boston Harbor – the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver – and dumped over 300 chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against the Tea Act and British taxation without representation. This event was one of the key events leading up to the American Revolution and played a significant role in the escalation of tensions between the American colonists and the British government.
I am hoping they still teach this in schools? Sometimes it doesn’t seem like they do.
