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प्रश्न
Write a short note on the Boston Tea Party.
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उत्तर
- Bypassing local merchants and enforcing taxes without representation, the British East India Company was able to sell tea directly to the colonies according to the Tea Act of 1773.
- At Boston Harbour, American colonists dressed as Native Americans protested by boarding British ships and throwing 342 chests of tea into the sea.
- By raising tensions between the American colonists and the British government, this act of defiance fuelled the American independence movement and resulted in a harsh British response through the Intolerable Acts.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Fill in the blank:
The discovery of the American continent was followed by the establishment of __________ European settlements in the 16th century.
Fill in the blank:
In 1776, the representatives of the colonists met at Philadelphia and adopted a _______________.
The British monarch, King George III, refused to withdraw the unjust and oppressive Acts imposed on the colonists and declared war on them. In this context discuss:
The revolutionary principles and ideas in the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
The defeat of British at ____________ paved the way for the friendship between France and America.
Candide was written by ____________.
Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet was____________.
The Postmaster General of the Postal Department of the government of second Continental Congress was ____________.
“Taxation without Representation” led to the outbreak of American War of Independence – Explain
The ______ ship had taken a batch of Puritans from Plymouth England to America.
How did the American war of Independence ended in the declaration of independence?
