Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party 1773

LOOK at your Paper Look at the paper that we did in class about the different accounts of the tea party. Look at the last column and write me a 1 page account of what you think really happened during the Tea Party. Think about which side would have the correct information about each part of the story.

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Facts Occurred on Thursday, December 16, 1773, and took 3 hours between 7 and 10 PM 90,000 lbs of tea in 342 containers was thrown overboard 116 people participated in the destruction of tea

Facts Each full container had a weight of 400 pounds. Half-containers were 100 pounds each The destroyed tea was worth an estimated £10,000. In today’s money this would be approximately equal to a million dollars The names of the three B.T.P. ships were Dartmouth, Eleanor and Beaver