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The Boston Tea Party: Events and Impact
This chapter provides a detailed account of the events leading up to and including the Boston Tea Party. It explains how three ships carrying East India Company tea arrived in Boston and how the Sons of Liberty organized public meetings demanding that the tea be sent back to England. The chapter describes the refusal of the customs collector and Governor Thomas Hutchinson to allow the ships to leave the harbor, leading to a series of escalating events culminating in a group of men dressing up as indigenous people, boarding the ships, and dumping the tea into the harbor.