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1776
Intolerable Acts
1773
Congress
Native Americans
Sugar Act
could not elect their own government officials
three
Parliament
Tea Act
must pay for the destroyed tea
The event that became known as the Boston Tea Party took place in
It erupted after
years of unhappiness in many parts of the British colonies in North America. The colonists were upset because they were being taxed
without having any representatives in the British
In 1773, they were most upset with
the
, but not because it created a new tax. It prevented colonists from buying that
product from any other country other than Britain
They rose in protest on December 16. A group of colonists hid their identities by dressing up as
and boarded a British ship filled with tea. They dumped over 300 crates of it into Boston
Harbor in protest, destroying it all The British government was furious. They passed a series of laws that colonists called the
to punish Boston for their actions. One of the laws required that the city of Boston
before the harbor would be reopened. Another law said that the colony of Massachusetts
The bad feeling between the colonists would boil for another
years, when they officially declared their independence from Great Britain
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