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THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
The Boston Tea Party
The boston tea party took place in massashusetts .The colonist threw tea in the boston harbor.The leader of the boston tea party was Samuel adams.They destroyed more than 200 crates of tea,and over 2000 pounds of tea.The british soldiers came to arrest the colonist.Some of them escaped.
What happened to lead to the Boston Tea Party
The colonist threw tea in the harbor because the government, Parliment passed a law with tax on tea. The colonists got fed up , marched to the harbor, swam to the ship and started throwing tea off board. Most of them were arrested.