Transcript boston tea party

The Boston
Boston Tea
Party
Tea
Party
1773
LOOK at your Paper
• Look at the paper that we did in class about
the different accounts of the tea party.
• Look at the last column and write me a 1 page
account of what you think really happened
during the Tea Party.
• Think about which side would have the
correct information about each part of the
story.
Clip on the Boston Tea Party
• http://www.history.com/videos/the-sons-ofliberty-and-the-boston-tea-party#the-sons-ofliberty-and-the-boston-tea-party
Facts
• Occurred on Thursday, December 16,
1773, and took 3 hours between 7
and 10 PM
• 90,000 lbs of tea in 342 containers
was thrown overboard
• 116 people participated in the
destruction of tea
Facts
• Each full container had a weight
of 400 pounds. Half-containers
were 100 pounds each
• The destroyed tea was worth an
estimated £10,000. In today’s
money this would be
approximately equal to a million
dollars
• The names of the three B.T.P.
ships were Dartmouth, Eleanor
and Beaver