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» The Boston Tea Party, 1773 The Liberty Tree Lantern

September 15th, 2009

A series of actions including the Stamp Act (1765), the Townsend Acts (1767) and the Boston Massacre (1770) agitated the colonists, straining relations with the mother country. But it was the Crown’s attempt to tax tea that spurred the …

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