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Great Britian starts to tax tea on the American colonies and colonists start to protest.
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Sons of Liberty gather people plan how to protest against the tea act.
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A mob smashes a window at a wealthy tea consignee's house.
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Colonists dress up as native americans and hijack one of the East India Company's ships. They dumped 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor worth over $2,000,000.
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The Boston Harbor is shut down until the tea is accounted for. Boston enters a short depression and the revolution develops further.
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