1773 After Parliament
passed a tax on tea,
the Sons of Liberty
dumped ships' cargo
of tea in Boston
Harbor during the

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

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one of these is the rhoticity common in most american accents, because in the 17th century, when english was brought to the americas, most english in england was also rhotic.