6. The Afternoon Tea in America
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What had happened at one tea party in Boston on December 16, 1773, that resulted in the birth of American independence on July, 4th, three years later? Well, it was not an ordinary five o’clock cup of tea – it was somewhat different. Late on December, 16 political activists, better known as Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indians, threw 342 chests of tea into the water, from three British ships that had been boarded in Boston harbor. The reason was the colonist’s protest regarding refusal of paying taxes on the British tea. It seems that the aftermath of this particular tea party shaped the entire Western Hemisphere and subsequently the whole world. And now, let’s see what else we have on our list of most important historical events that changed the world forever.
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