Informative Essay: The Second Tea Party

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The Second Tea Party was not just fun and games like it sounds. The Tea Party happened because of the tea that came to the harbor on March 6th 1774. The colonists were very angry about the ship coming back with tea that was under the same tax that made them rebel less than 4 months earlier. Yet the driver of the ship, Fortune, still thought it would be a great idea to bring back the tea with the tax. John Adams said “Twenty Eight Chests of Tea arrived Yesterday, which are to make an Infusion in Water, at 7 o 'Clock this Evening.” (Browsing). The colonists told the driver, who is anonymous, not to bring back the East India Company Tea. He didn’t, he brought other merchants tea, but the tea was under the Tea Act that was first issued in 1773 first

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