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The Boston Tea PartyBoston Tea Party Boston Tea Party 1773 American protest against British taxation For other uses, see Boston Tea Party (disambiguation). The Boston Tea Party was a seminal American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, during the American Revolution. Initiated by Sons of Liberty activists in Boston in colonial Massachusetts, one of the original Thirteen Colonies in British America, it escalated hostilities between Britain and American patriots, who opposed British colonial mercantile and governing practices.[1] Less than two years later, on April 19, 1775, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, also in Massachusetts, launched the eight-year American Revolutionary War between the British and the Thirteen Colonies, which ultimately prevailed, securing their independence and the establishment of the sovereign United… (Source: Wikipedia)
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