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This image from 1789 is a representation of the events of December 16, 1773. Disguised as Indians, colonists dumped nearly 90,000 pounds of East India Company tea into Boston harbor in protest against the Tea Act. The so-called Boston Tea Party provoked Parliament to pass the Coercive, or Intolerable, Acts, to punish the inhabitants of…

January 28 2017