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1 GUIDED TOUR Group Project

2 EVENT Boston Tea Party started- December 16, 1773

3 BOSTON TEA PARTY Samuel Adams and the group called Sons of Liberty boarded on three ships and threw 342 chests of tea overbroad because of taxtation

4 BOSTON TEA PARTY It took nearly 3 hours for more than 100 colonist to empty the tea into Boston Harbor. The chest held more than 90,000 pounds of tea, which would cost nearly $ 1,000,000 dollars today

5 WORK CITED http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party

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