Show The Tea One of the fateful days in the history of this country was December two hundred years ago next ON THAT day sixteen disguised as boarded a ship in Boston Harbor and threw its cargo of tea into the It is hard to completely justify this illegal and it must be recognized that some of the incentive for it stemmed from anti-British sentiments and earlier ac and because the colonies weren't represented in EAST India Company had then arranged to lower the price on tea so that it was about the same as if there had been no But that didn't satisfy the They refused to accept the tax in principle and dumped the tea over board PARLIAMENT res by moving the capital of Massachusetts from Boston to Salem and closed Bos- ton Harbor to all The bitterness which resulted from these actions was a contributing factor to the revolt of the colonies a few years |