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Wikipedia: The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and reference is often made to it in other political protests.
![[~ 200th Anniversary Boston Tea Party ~In 1973 the US Post Office issued a set of four stamps, together making one...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Boston_Tea_Party_1973_issue_3c_s.jpg "~ 200th Anniversary Boston Tea Party ~In 1973 the US Post Office issued a set of four stamps, together making one...")
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![[1789 engraving of the destruction of the tea]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Boston_Tea_Party_Cooper_s.jpg "1789 engraving of the destruction of the tea")
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![[This iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor"]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Boston_Tea_Party_Currier_colored_s.jpg "This iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled \"The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor\"")
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![[Plaque affixed to side of the Independence Wharf building (2009)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Boston_Tea_Party_Plaque_Independence_Wharf_2009_2_s.jpg "Plaque affixed to side of the Independence Wharf building (2009)")
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![[This 1775 British cartoon, "A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina", satirizes the Edenton Tea...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Edenton_North_Carolina_women_Tea_boycott_1775_s.jpg "This 1775 British cartoon, \"A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina\", satirizes the Edenton Tea...")
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