How Did Samuel Adams Raise The Price Of Tea Dbq

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on December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams organized a group of men called the Sons of Liberty. They dressed up as Mohawk Indians. They boarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. It took nearly three hours to accomplish this. The British Parliament passed the Tea Act on April 27, 1773 which was a import tax and it raised the price of tea to three cents per pound on all tea sent to America. It took three months for the colonist to hear about the new tax and the were not happy about it when they found out. On November 5, 1773 there was a town meeting a Faneuil Hall. There were more that 1,00 Boston citizens who attended it. They were talking about the tea tax and demanded the resignations of the agents who

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