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When the British parliament, in an effort to shore up the East Indian Company, granted that group a monopoly on tea trade with the American colonies, fierce resistance developed. The company selected consignees in Boston, , [ny:newyork], [sc:charlest], and [pa:philadel] and shipped half a million pounds of tea across the atlantic in September, 1773. Except in Boston, the consignees declined under pressure to accept the tea, but in Boston, the chosen merchants refused to give in. On the night of December 16, 1773, [sama] and a small group of Sons of Liberty, disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded the ship carrying the tea in Boston Harbor and threw it overboard. To the British Parliament, this confirmed their view that Boston was the center of resistance to legitimate British interests. One of the results was the Coercive Acts of 1774. CODE left
When the British parliament, in an effort to shore up the East Indian Company, granted that group a monopoly on tea trade with the American colonies, fierce resistance developed. The company selected consignees in [ma:boston], [ny:newyork], [sc:charlest], and [pa:philadel] and shipped half a million pounds of tea across the atlantic in September, 1773. Except in Boston, the consignees declined under pressure to accept the tea, but in Boston, the chosen merchants refused to give in. On the night of December 16, 1773, [sama] and a small group of Sons of Liberty, disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded the ship carrying the tea in Boston Harbor and threw it overboard. To the British Parliament, this confirmed their view that Boston was the center of resistance to legitimate British interests. One of the results was the Coercive Acts of 1774.
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