The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum offers an immersive experience that takes you back to December 16, 1773, the day when American colonists protested against British taxation by dumping 342 ...

As one of the nation’s most iconic events, the Boston Tea Party marked a turning point in the struggle for independence, uniting the colonists, and ultimately leading to the American Revolution.

This riled colonists but the king wasn't done ... Just like that, 92,000 pounds of tea went overboard and the Boston Tea Party became legend. King George III was livid. In the spring of 1774 ...

When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...

The Boston Tea Party demonstrates ... ignited by the passage of the Townshend duties in 1767. The colonists resisted these duties so effectively that parliament soon had to repeal them, but ...

Although he had not liked his fellow colonists' destructive response to the Stamp Act eight years earlier, John Adams applauded the Boston Tea Party. He wrote in his Diary, "There is a Dignity ...

On Dec. 16, 1773, American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Co., into the Boston harbor.

December 16: In the event known as the Boston Tea Party, colonists disguised as Indians dump imported tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxes on the product. Suspected participants include Samuel ...

The Stamp Act met with unified colonial resistance because this direct tax imposed on the colonies by Parliament was a novel tax, meant to collect revenue. Numerous forms of communication ...