波士顿倾茶事件(英语:Boston Tea Party,原称The Destruction of the Tea in Boston),亦称波士顿茶会事件、波士顿茶党事件,是自由之子于1773年12月16日马萨诸塞湾省波士顿举行的一个美国政治和商业抗议[1]。抗议对象是1773年5月10日的《茶税法》,该法案允许英国东印度公司在美国殖民地销售来自清朝的茶叶,而无需缴...
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts, in which American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the ...
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The Boston Tea Party, which occurred on December 16, 1773, is often remembered as a heroic display of American patriotism during the lead up to the American Revolution. Yet it was also a very visible display of the destruction of private property....
the company could undersell American merchants and monopolize the colonial tea trade.Not only did this action create an unfair commerce to the merchants of the colonies but it proved to be the spark that revived American passions about the issue of taxation without representation.To fully ...
The new regulations allowed the company to sell tea to the colonists at a low price, lower than the price of smuggled tea, even including the required duty. The British reasoned that the Americans would willingly pay the tax if they were able to pay a low price for the tea. ...
Boston Tea Party, precursor to the American Revolution in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians on December 16, 1773. They were protesting a tax
Benjamin Franklininsisted the British East India Company be reimbursed for the lost tea and even offered to pay for it himself. No one was hurt, and aside from the destruction of the tea and a padlock, no property was damaged or looted during the Boston Tea Party. The participants reportedl...
Images: Boston Tea Party building courtesy Google Maps, image capture 2019. Mick Fleetwood By W.W.Thaler – H. Weber, Hildesheim – Own work,CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13409500. In 1878, the Burlington Woolen Company decided that it could increase its...
(Historical Terms)historyUSa raid in 1773 made by citizens of Boston (disguised as Indians) on three British ships in the harbour as a protest against taxes on tea and the monopoly given to the East India Company. The contents of several hundred chests of tea were dumped into the harbour ...