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Boston Tea Party

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Noun1.Boston Tea PartyBoston Tea Party - demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea
history - the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776


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In 1773 it was the site of the Boston Tea Party, colonists dumping tea rather than paying British tax, quickly followed by the War of Independence.
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Readers will also learn of her involvement with the famous Boston Tea Party.
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I didn't think we'd make it - with Scott Peterson, Michael Jackson and the Boston Tea Party, it seemed we were about to be buried under an avalanche of 24-hour mega-news hyperbole and conjecture.
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