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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

Clip on the Boston Tea Party

http://www.history.com/videos/the-sons-of-liberty-and-the-boston-tea-party#the-sons-of-liberty-and-the-boston-tea-partySlide4
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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 BeaverSlide7
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