The Boston Tea Party was an act of protest on December 16, 1773, during the American Revolution. Initiated by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, one of the Thirteen Colonies
Boston Tea Party, an engraving in The History of North America, a 1799 book by William Cooper
The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor, an iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard. Contrary to Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea were actually disguised as American Indians.
A 1775 British cartoon, A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina, satirizing the Edenton Tea Party, a group of American women who organized a boycott of British tea
A notice from the "Chairman of the Committee for Tarring and Feathering" in Boston, denouncing the tea consignees as "traitors to their country"
The Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws
Boston Tea Party
…merchantmen Polly, which was transporting a shipment of tea, to return to England without unloading her cargo. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Intolerable Acts, which, among other provisions, ended local self-government in Massachusetts and closed Boston's commercial port. Colonists throughout the Thirteen…
This Patriot cartoon depicting the Coercive Acts as the forcing of tea on a Native American woman (a symbol of the American colonies) was copied and distributed in the Thirteen Colonies.