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**What Happened?**
On December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty had some members dress themselves as Mohawk Indians. That morning there was a meeting. The Sons were to wait for the key phrase, "This meeting can do nothing more to save the country" to commense the opperation**.** They "Mohawks" went down to Griffin's Warf and boarded the tea ships that were there. They slashed the crates with their axes and dumped all 342 crates into the sea. People stirred the water of the Boston Harbor to make the biggest salt-water pot of tea in American history. Some people were caught smuggling tea in their hats but were caught, their clothes were ripped off, and thrown into the sea along with the rest of the tea. The british had two war shipd gaurding the harbor, but they didn't shoot at the "Indians". They didn't want another Boston Massacre to take place.

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Orgininally the Long Room Club, the Sons of Liberty were originally groups of people in each community who organized the opposition of the Stamp Act. The group in Boston was called the Layal Nine. They guided riots without being distructive or violent, although sometimes unsuccessful. In the end they included anyone that opposed England's rule, then it extended to people who fought for freedom in the Revolutionary War**.**

**Who else was in the Boston Tea Party?**
The people in the Boston Tea Party besides the Long Room Club and the Sons Of **Librity** were Dr.Thomas Young, Benjamin Edes, Jonh Russell, S.Coolidge, Thomas Woore, Samuel Peck, Amos Lincoln and fifty others dressed as Mohawk **indians**.

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The colonists were angry at England for putting taxes on tea. The Tea Act of 1773 allowed East India Tea Company to skip paying duties to **Britan.** By saving this money, the East India Company could sell tea at a lower rate than the American colonists. **Sice** it was cheaper to buy tea from the East India Company, the colonists were selling less and less tea. This would eventually put them out of buisness. But since England was now taxing tea, the colonists had to pay those taxes too. The American's lost a bunch of money from not selling tea, and they lost even more by paying even more taxes to England.

What was the aftermath of the Boston Tea Party?
Britan found out that it was not in fact Mohawks, but colonists. They were outraged. In the next year, to punish Boston's citizens, they passed the Coercive Acts. Coerce means to force someone to behave in a certain manner. So, Britan wanted the colonists to behave a certain way. It was an attempt to make Boston's rebels to obey British law. The colonists called it the Intolerable Acts. They were furious that someone would try to force tthem to act a certain way. Massachusetts then moved its capital from Boston to Salem because Boston was intensely watched by England. The tories are more infuriated than before.The act of tea party by the patriots proven to Royal authities that they cannot be intimidated, that librity and freedom is uppmost in their minds. Though the patriots are rejoicing over the boldness of last night's actions.

**How do these people and events have on American and the** govenment?
The event and the people in this event helped make the **govenment** system that it is today.Without this event this little act against the British without involving violence we might not have had the courage to to fight Britian back. Without this event and the people in it we would have taken longer to fight Britian back and more lives would been taken. It helped ignite the Revolutionary War.

Bibliography: Source 1- Linda Gondosch; How Did Tea and Taxes Spark a Revolution?; Minneapolis; Lerner Publishing Co; 2011; Print Source 2- Mary Kay Phelan; The Story of the Boston Tea Party; New York; Thomas Y. Crowell Publishing Co; 1973; Print