Boston Tea Party Dbq

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“The Boston tea party was a political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston Massachusetts.
This fame act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. British Parliament adjusted duties with the passes of the tea act in 1773. While in Charleston,New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments.On December 15 1773,the beaver the last of the three ships sailing from London,England arrived at Griffin's wharf in Boston. The Beaver was delayed due on a case of smallpox which broke out onboard,and she was held in quarantine for two weeks in Bostons outer harbor. The Dartmouth had arrived at Griffin’s wharf on November 28 and the other ship Eleanor had arrived on December second. There were supposed to be four ships, but