History of the United States I / Unit 5 USH1 0628 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Destruction of the Tea
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The idea
On December sixteenth, seventeen seventy-three, Sons of Liberty and their followers, some disguised as Mohawks, destroyed the tea aboard three ships.
In practice
Townspeople gathering at the Old South Meeting House as the Dartmouth's twenty-day deadline approached.
Where people slip
The anchor gives the loss as a present-day dollar figure, which is a conversion that goes stale. Teach the three shiploads.
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