On Dec. 16, 1773, 241 years ago, angry Boston citizens boarded British ships and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it came to be known, proved one of the ...

Why Tea? Colonial American Protests of 1774, 3:15 p.m. American colonists imported a wide range of commodities through the East India Company including glass, paper, lead, paint colors, sugar and ...