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What was the Boston Tea Party ?

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Answer: a political and mercantile protest

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Answer: When a bunch of Americans dumped tea into the ocean

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The Boston Tea Party was a protest that happened on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation”, dumped 342 crates of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

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