Samuel Adams29 November 1773
A mass meeting passes a resolution, introduced by Adams, urging the captain of Dartmouth to send the ship back without paying import duty
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A mass meeting passes a resolution, introduced by Adams, urging the captain of Dartmouth to send the ship back without paying import duty
When the tea ship Dartmouthr arrives in Boston Samuel Adams calls for a mass meeting to be held at Faneuil Hall
Governor Hutchinson refuses to grant permission for the Dartmouth to leave Boston without paying tea duty
Governor Thomas Hutchinson had been urging London to take a hard line with the Sons of Liberty
After a meeting held by Adams demonstrators board three vessels and dump all 342 chests of tea into the water
Argues the Tea Party was not the act of a lawless mob, but was instead a principled protest and the only remaining option the people had to defend their constitutional rights
Whether or not Samuel Adams helped plan the Boston Tea Party is disputed, but he immediately worked to publicize and defend it
Aimed Tea Act of 1773, which allowed the British East India company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes
Colonists object to the Tea Act because they believe it violates their rights to "no taxation without representation"
Demonstrators destroy an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company
The Boston Tea Party is a protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
The British Government responds harshly and the episode escalates into the American Revolution
Colonists object to the Tea Act because they believe it violates their rights to "no taxation without representation"
Benjamin Rush urges his fellow countrymen to oppose the landing of the tea, because the cargo contained "the seeds of slavery
Hancock's boycott of tea imported by the British East India Company leads to the Boston Tea Party
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