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The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party started when began putting unfair taxes on the prices of imported items. Cloth, tea, and were the most abused since tea was new, cloth was essential, and spices were used for cooking. Settlers in New England refused to pay these outrageous sums. When a new full of tea was left , the settlers knew this was probably their only chance. They disguised themselves as , as England was familiar with them, and dumped the tea into the harbor. Now there was no more tea to put taxes on.

This eventually led to The Revolutionary War, where the settlers would be with the British over more then just unfair taxes. is almost as famous as the War itself. This was the first outcry to the ways the British were treating the .

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