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First of all, the year before that England had massacred colonists in Boston with their military. The tea party wasn't a random destructive impulse, it was a response to violence and destruction. Second, the Philadelphia Tea Party simply sent the tea back, and that's where the continental congress was founded and several colonies sent delegates to in order to form a proper organized resistance.
Yeah, absolutely, fight the power, though.
6 people. 6 people died during the Boston massacre. I have a feeling that this is still talked about more than the Wounded Knee massacre.
Moreover, future president John Adams defended the men of the 29th regiment in a Boston court. Two of them were found guilty of manslaughter, and the rest were found not guilty.
His argument was super fucked up, too. He said a bunch of really racist stuff. Heard he got a lot more tolerant as he got older, one of the few presidents whose entire life was so completely documented via letters and journals.