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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 blanks:
The colonists argued that the British Parliament had no right to tax the colonists because they had no ___________ in the ______________.
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American thinker _______________ asked the people to rebel against the tyrannical rule of ___________.
Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet was____________.
What do you know about the Quakers?
The ______ founded a town and called it New Amsterdam.
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State the reasons for the meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774 in Philadelphia.
What signaled the outbreak of the American War of Independence?
Answer all questions given under the heading.
Increasing incidence of Taxation
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- Explain the Quartering Act.
- What was the Stamp Act?
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