The story behind the Boston Tea Party - Ben Labaree
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Published 2013-03-18
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Before the Revolutionary War, American colonists were taxed heavily for importing tea from Britain. The colonists, not fans of "taxation without representation", reacted by dumping tea into the Boston Harbor, a night now known as the Boston Tea Party. Ben Labaree gets into the nitty-gritty of that famous revolutionary act.
Lesson by Ben Labaree, animation by Nick Fox-Gieg Animation.
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All Comments (21)
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And so they switched to coffee.
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Britian: makes tea cheaper than the smuggled dutch tea American Colonies: This is an Avengers level threat
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Modern smuggling: drugs, human, weapon. Smuggling in the 1700s : TEA
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"How'd you defeat the British? We deployed the tactical tea boxes, and the British just drank the sea" As a British person, I thought the Boston tea party was the most hilarious thing I've heard of in a while
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and then we switched to coffee
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They showed the Boston Tea Party as loud and full of people surrounding the harbor watching the 50 "Native Americans" throwing the tea over. The event was actually pretty quiet and relaxed. The 50 men silently went down to the harbor, went to the ships, took any crew prisoner that were there, cut the lock off to the ships cargo hold, threw the tea overboard, replaced the lock, set the crew free, and moved out into the night. It was peaceful, quiet, and stealthy. I bet Boston's water supply tasted like tea for the whole Revolution.
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You forgot to mention why some of them were dressed as native americans. Basically, it was so that they couldn't be recognized later, and if thing got too out-of- hand, they could blame everything on the Indians. So much for bravery....
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"The Americans' beloved tea" must sound so alien to modern 'muricans.
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Bruh you just saved me from my exam πππ
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2:27 Bro why is nobody talking about that guy, I feel like he is trying to do a Tik Tok dance-
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So basically tea's responsible for the independence of America.Β VIVA LA THE!
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Is this what Americans are talking about when they say βare you still mad about the tea?β π€
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Thank you so much! Always can count on TED-Ed with homework assignments.
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pov: you're in school and your teacher put this for class work.
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Good timing. I just wanted to learn more about the boston tea party because i just completeed that part in AC 3.
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At 2:30, Sam Adams legit just started dancing provocatively hoping that the townspeople would be swayed by his flowing movements and sassy energy. Even got some knee action up in there.
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Now im free to drink my Lipton tea without throwing it in the sea....hey that rhymed lolππππ
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Who else is here after Minneapolis riots?
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Happy 248 anniversary of tea party December 16th 1773
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now i want to go to BOSTON, drink TEA, and have a PARTY. Thanks for this helps me finish my hmwk ;)