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1. Boston Tea Party

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   The Boston Tea Party, which occurred on December 16, 1773, was a political protest by American colonists against the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773. The act, designed to bail out the financially struggling British East India Company, granted the company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies. The colonists viewed this legislation not merely as an economic imposition but as a calculated maneuver to undercut local merchants and assert Parliament's right to tax the colonies without their consent, violating the principle of "…