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They didn't dress up. This is part of the fable. The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the lowering of the cost of the British tea by the government and the East India tea company who had gotten a bail out from the crown in 1773. The smugglers in the colonies found the Dutch tea that they sold was higher in price than the British tea, so they staged the Boston Tea Party and others in harbors in the colonies ( Hamilton was one of the largest smugglers in the colonies and a founding member of the Son's of Liberty). The cost of tea also went as far back as the Navigation Acts and the restricting of trade to and from the colonies passed from 1650-1733. Tea was also taxed in 1767 in the Townsend Acts.

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There are two reasons that the colonist dressed up at Mohawk Indians. The group wanted to conceal their identities and the disguise was a political message that the colonist were Americans and not British.

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The colonist were NOT dressed as Indians. This is part of the myth of the Boston Tea party. The men who went on the ships that night were a group of smugglers who were upset because the tea tax had been LOWERED and the Dutch tea that they smuggled would have cost more to sell.

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They didn't dress up. This is part of the fable. The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the lowering of the cost of the British tea by the government and the East India tea company who had gotten a bail out from the crown in 1773. The smugglers in the colonies found the Dutch tea that they sold was higher in price than the British tea, so they staged the Boston Tea Party and others in harbors in the colonies ( Hamilton was one of the largest smugglers in the colonies and a founding member of the Son's of Liberty). The cost of tea also went as far back as the Navigation Acts and the restricting of trade to and from the colonies passed from 1650-1733. Tea was also taxed in 1767 in the Townsend Acts.

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Normal colonial clothing. It is part of the fable about the tea party that they were dressed as native americans. Never happened.

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They disguised themselves as Native Americans because they were symbolizing themselves as Natives to the land and also wanted to keep from being targeted.

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Yes. The Sons Of Liberty were dressed as Indians during the time of the Boston Tea Party. It took place in 1773. They also dumped 45 tons of tea into the harbor.

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They were disguised as Native Americans.

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