When the tea ship Dartmouth[a] arrived in the Boston Harbor in late November, Whig leader Samuel Adams called for a mass meeting to be held at Faneuil Hall on November 29, 1773.

Samuel Adams was the Sons of Liberty member who called the meeting leading to the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. During this protest, colonists disguised themselves as …

Aug 17, 2024 · The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that took place on the night of December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. A mob organized by the …

The Sons of Liberty raided tea warehouses, and on January 25, 1774, a British customs officer named John Malcomb was kidnapped by a mob, publicly tarred and feathered, and forced to …

With those words Adams addressed the thousands gathered at the Old South Meeting House, the meeting came to a close, and it was the signal for the Sons of Liberty to take action and carry …

What British laws punished colonists for the Boston Tea Party, by taking away self-governance of Massachusetts and closing the port of Boston until Britain was paid for their lost tax income?

Sep 26, 2025 · Boston Tea Party, (December 16, 1773), incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by …

The Boston Tea Party was a collective act of defiance by a group called the Sons of Liberty, a secret society formed to protect the rights of the colonists and fight British taxation.

Jan 27, 2025 · Orchestrated by Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty, the December 16 Tea Party destroyed 90,000 pounds of tea worth nearly £10,000. The following day, John Adams praised …

The Tea Ship Dartmouth arrives in Boston. The Committee of Correspondence, led by Brother Joseph Warren, distributes handbills calling for a Mass Town Meeting to return the tea whence …