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For all practical purposes, the 1773 Tea Act gave the East India Tea Company a monopoly by allowing them to charge less than other merchants. Despite the fact they were now paying less for tea, American colonists held [[protest]]s against the act. The colonists tried to prevent the consignees from accepting taxed tea and were successful in [[New York]] and [[Philadelphia]]. At [[Charleston]] the tea was landed but was held in [[government]] warehouses. At [[Boston]], three tea ships arrived and remained unloaded but [[Massachusetts]] governor [[Thomas Hutchinson]] became determined to force the colonists to pay the duties on the tea, and issued orders that no British ship was to leave port without unloading their cargo.

For all practical purposes, the 1773 Tea Act gave the East India Tea Company a monopoly by allowing them to charge less than other merchants. Despite the fact they were now paying less for tea, American colonists held [[protest]]s against the act. The colonists tried to prevent the consignees from accepting taxed tea and were successful in [[New York]] and [[Philadelphia]]. At [[Charleston]] the tea was landed but was held in [[government]] warehouses. At [[Boston]], three tea ships arrived and remained unloaded but [[Massachusetts]] governor [[Thomas Hutchinson]] became determined to force the colonists to pay the duties on the tea, and issued orders that no British ship was to leave port without unloading their cargo.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, [[Paul Revere]] and other members of the [[Sons of Liberty]], thinly-disguised as [[Native Americans]], boarded the three British East India Company ships moored to the piers and threw the entire cargo of tea into the harbor.  Boston brewer and patriot [[Samuel Adams]], as well as [[John Hancock]] were present during the events.  The three ships that were boarded were the the ''Beaver'', the ''Dartmouth'', and the ''Eleanor''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WLVLBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT366 Architects of Anglo-American Justice]</ref>

On the evening of December 16, 1773, [[Paul Revere]] and other members of the [[Sons of Liberty]], thinly-disguised as [[Native Americans]], boarded the three British East India Company ships moored to the piers of ''Griffin's Wharf' and threw the entire cargo of tea into the harbor.  Boston brewer and patriot [[Samuel Adams]], as well as [[John Hancock]] were present during the events.  The three ships that were boarded were the the ''Beaver'', the ''Dartmouth'', and the ''Eleanor''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WLVLBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT366 Architects of Anglo-American Justice]</ref>

==Aftermath==

==Aftermath==