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The Boston Tea Party was the first major act of defiance by the colonists. What were the colonists protesting?

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it was a protest of the Boston Tea act of 1773. they dressed up as Mohawk Indians and boarded the ships to toss 342 chests of tea. 
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Taxation without representation!
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