On the evening of December 16, 1773, 250 years ago today, New England colonists disguised as Native Americans calmly boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard. By ...

The Boston Tea Party, a euphemistic name for a dangerous escalation of hostilities between colonists and the crown, erupted on the Massachusetts coast on this day in history, Dec. 16, 1773. "The die ...

On December 16, 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as members of the Mohawk tribe boarded three British tea ships in Boston Harbor. They dumped 342 chests of tea -- valued at $18,000 - ...

On this day 252 years ago, angry colonists in Massachusetts boarded a British ship in the Boston Harbor to protest what were seen as unfair circumstances regarding tea imports. Dressed as Mohawk ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago tonight, the people of Boston carried out one of the greatest feats of mass civil disobedience in American history, the Boston Tea Party. Bostonians broke into cargo ...

They were fed up with a British tax on tea in particular and consumed by resentment of British authority in general. So on the night of December 16, 1773, a group of rebellious colonial Americans ...

The popular telling of the Boston Tea Party gets something wrong. The colonists were not responding to a tax increase. They were responding to the Tea Act of 1773, which granted a tea monopoly in the ...

Few people would have guessed that throwing crates of tea off a ship would lead to one of the biggest revolutions in history. Yet, on this day in 1773 a group calling itself the Sons of Liberty ...

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting explores the taxing of tea before the American Revolution and how tea is taxed in the U.S. today --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting: What: Many ...