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The Boston Tea Party Lg. Ce

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BOSTON TEA PARTY?

  • The Sons Of Liberty Dressed Up As Mowhawk Indians.
  • They Dumped 17 Million Pounds Of Tea Into The Boston Harbor!
  • The Unique Thing Is That The Guards Just Let The Sons Of Liberty Through.

WHO WAS INVOLVED?

  • Well It started when Britain put a tax on tea and even if they didn't buy it they had to pay it!
  • They didn't like that so, there where people who where patriot and there where people who
  • ... where loyalists.
  • Patriots are people who don't like Britain and want to break up.
  • Loyalists are people who stay loyal to Britain.

WHEN DID IT HAPPEN

  • December 16, 1773
  • It happened at night

WERE DID IT hAPPEN

  • The Boston Harbor
  • America or the colonies

THE CAUSE OF THE EVENT

  • The tax on the tea and had to pay the taxes
  • Britain sent 17million pounds of tea and they had to pay it
  • The have been controlled
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THE EFFECT OF THE TEA PARTY

  • Boston harbor got shut down.
  • Britain got even more mad!
  • The intolerable acts.

BRITAIN'S VIEW OF THE EVENT

  • They are angry
  • don't realize that they are doing bad
  • they know the colonists are mad about something
Photo by Bert Kaufmann

PATRIOT'S VIEW

  • HATED the British People
  • They wanted To "Break Up" With Britain.
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LOYALIST VIEW

  • were on the British side
  • did not live in Britain
  • They lived in America
  • Thought that Britain was right