The Boston Tea Party 1773 LOOK at your Paper Look at the paper that we did in class about the different accounts of the tea party Look at the last column and write me a 1 page account of what you think really happened during the Tea Party ID: 510288
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Boston Tea Party
The Boston
Tea
Party
1773Slide2
LOOK at your Paper
Look at the paper that we did in class about the different accounts of the tea party.
Look at the last column and write me a 1 page account of what you think really happened during the Tea Party.Think about which side would have the correct information about each part of the story.Slide3
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Facts
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ccurred on Thursday, December 16, 1773, and took 3 hours between 7 and 10 PM90,000 lbs of tea in 342 containers was thrown overboard
116 people
participated
in the destruction of teaSlide6
Facts
Each full container had a weight of 400 pounds. Half-containers were 100 pounds each
The destroyed tea was worth an estimated £10,000. In today’s money this would be approximately equal to a million dollars
The names of the three B.T.P. ships were
Dartmouth, Eleanor and BeaverSlide7Slide8Slide9