The Boston Tea Party: The Sons of Liberty upset with the trade monopoly given to the British East India Company destroy 9,000 Pounds Sterling (silver) worth of BEIC tea by dumping it into Boston Harbor.
[restored 6/12/2021]
Subsequent Events:
References:
“Chronology of Events, 1774-1804,” from The Debate on the Constitution, two volumes, Bernard Bailyn, ed., (New York: Library of America, 1992), 2:1025.
Paul Johnson, A History of the American People, (New York: HarperPerennial, 1997), 142.
Boston Tea Party – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
Current U.s. National Debt:
