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During the Boston Tea Party, protestors dumped tea from ships into the harbor.

What were they protesting?

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they were protesting taxes enforced by the government
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American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
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