Boston Tea Party Research Paper

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The Boston Tea Party By: Blakelynn Ortega The Boston Tea Party started on December 16, 1776. It all started with taxes. Taxes are unfair to all people. This is why the sons of liberty dressed up as native americans and took the tea off the ship. There were 92,000 pounds or 340 chests of tea that were dumped that day. All of this cost £9,659 but in today's money it would have cost £1,700,000. The owner of two of the three ships were named William Rotch, a colonist and merchant. There were 116 people who were documented to be on the ship. But even though there were 116 people on the ship, one out of the 116 only got arrested. Their name was Francis Akeley. The result was a drop in profits among American colonial tea merchants. That was just an