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Why Did They Dump The Tea?

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “Tea Party,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. Why did they destroy the tea? Protesters, some disguised …

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