The Boston Massacre and Tea Party
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The\\xa0Boston Massacre\\xa0was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in\\xa0Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading\\xa0Patriots\\xa0such as\\xa0Paul Revere\\xa0and\\xa0Samuel Adams.[2][3][4]\\xa0British troops had been stationed in the\\xa0Province of Massachusetts Bay\\xa0since 1768 in order to support crown-appointed officials and to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation.
The\\xa0Boston Tea Party\\xa0was an American\\xa0political\\xa0and mercantile protest by the\\xa0Sons of Liberty\\xa0in\\xa0Boston,\\xa0Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.[1]\\xa0The target was the\\xa0Tea Act\\xa0of May 10, 1773, which allowed the\\xa0British East India Company\\xa0to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the\\xa0Townshend Acts. American Patriots strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights. Demonstrators, some disguised as\\xa0Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.
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