they dumped tea into the harbor on december 16, 1773.
they dumped tea into the harbor on december 16, 1773.
when did they dump tea into the harbor?
december 16 , 1773
on december 16, 1773, a group of angry rebels calling themselves the "sons of liberty" protested the tea act and disguised as mohawk natives boarded three ships in boston harbor loaded with tea and proceeded to dump 92,000 pounds of tea into the ocean.









































king george iii reacted to the "tea party" by ordering the closing of the port of boston.









































while boston's was by far the most famous tea party that occurred in the colonies, it was only the first of many protests against the tea act that took place along the atlantic coast.









































section::::events in chestertown.
chestertown tea party
prior to the american revolution, the british began taxing american colonies to raise revenue. residents of south carolina were outraged by the townsend acts that taxed tea, paper, wine, glass, and oil. to protest the stamp act, south carolina sent the wealthy rice planter thomas lynch, twenty-six-year-old lawyer john rutledge, and christopher gadsden to the stamp act congress, held in 1765 in new york. other taxes were removed, but tea taxes remained. soon residents of south carolina, like those of the boston tea party, began to dump tea into the charleston harbor, followed by boycotts and protests.
history of south carolina