Boston Tea Party Analysis

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On Dec. 16, 1773, "radicals" from Boston, members of a secret organization of American Patriots called The Sons of Liberty Freedom, boarded three East India Company ships and we threw 342 chests of tea into the water. The coat of the amount of tea we threw into the water was valued at $18,000. Resistance to the Crown had been growing larger over enforcement of the 1764 Sugar Act, 1765 Stamp Act and 1767 Townshend Act, which led to the Boston Massacre and gave rise to the slogan, “No taxation without representation.” The British put taxes onto the tea to take all of our money. Since the British put the tax onto the tea, our Patriot leader, Samuel Adams, organized the “tea party” with about 60 members of the Sons of Liberty, which