Discover what led American colonists in 1773 to toss tea into the Boston Harbor in what became known as the Boston Tea Party.
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Before the Revolutionary War, American colonists were taxed heavily for importing tea from Britain. The colonists, not fans of “taxation without representation”, reacted by dumping tea into the Boston Harbor, a night now known as the Boston Tea Party. Ben Labaree gets into the nitty-gritty of that famous revolutionary act.
Lesson by Ben Labaree, animation by Nick Fox-Gieg Animation.
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