Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for December 15, 2023
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December 15, 2023: Two hundred fifty years ago, on December 16, 1773, a band of around 120 colonists dumped 342 chests of East India Company tea from three ships into Boston Harbor in protest against a tea tax implemented earlier that year by the British Parliament. The 92,000 pounds of tea were worth £9,659 at the time, equal to around $1.7 million today.[1][2][3]
The Boston Tea Party was carried out by a group that included just nine men over 40 and 16 participants under the age of 20. In response, the British Parliament passed a series of four laws called the Intolerable Acts, which triggered further protests and eventually led to the American Revolution.[1][2][3]
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