Question: When did the Boston Tea Party take place?
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John Adams and many other Americans considered tea drinking to be unpatriotic following the Boston Tea Party.
Tea drinking declined during and after the Revolution, resulting in a lasting American preference for coffee.
According to historian Alfred Young, the term "Boston Tea Party" did not appear in print until 1834.
Before that time, the event was usually referred to as the "destruction of the tea".
According to Young, American writers were for many years apparently reluctant to celebrate the destruction of property, and so the event was usually ignored in histories of the American Revolution.
This began to change in the 1830s, however, especially with the publication of biographies of George Robert Twelves Hewes, one of the few still-living participants of the "tea party", as it then became known.
The Boston Tea Party Museum is located on the Congress Street Bridge in Boston.
It features reenactments, a documentary, and a number of interactive exhibits.
The museum features two authentically restored ships, the Eleanor and the Beaver.
Additionally, the museum possesses one of two known tea chests from the original event, part of its permanent collection.
The issue was never the tax but how the tax was passed without American input; United States Congress taxed tea from 1789 to 1872.
The Boston Tea Party has often been referenced in other political protests.
When Mohandas K. Gandhi led a mass burning of Indian registration cards in South Africa in 1908, a British newspaper compared the event to the Boston Tea Party.
When Gandhi met with the British viceroy in 1930 after the Indian salt protest campaign, Gandhi took some duty-free salt from his shawl and said, with a smile, that the salt was "to remind us of the famous Boston Tea Party.
"American activists from a variety of political viewpoints have invoked the Tea Party as a symbol of protest.
In 1973, on the 200th anniversary of the Tea Party, a mass meeting at Faneuil Hall called for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon and protested oil companies in the ongoing oil crisis.
Afterwards, protesters boarded a replica ship in Boston Harbor, hanged Nixon in effigy, and dumped several empty oil drums into the harbor.
In 1998, two conservative US Congressmen put the federal tax code into a chest marked "tea" and dumped it into the harbor.
In 2006, a libertarian political party called the "Boston Tea Party" was founded.
In 2007, the Ron Paul "Tea Party" money bomb, held on the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, broke the one-day fund-raising record by raising $6.04 million in 24 hours.
Subsequently, these fund-raising "Tea parties" grew into the Tea Party movement, which dominated politics for the next two years, culminating in a voter victory for the Republicans in 2010 who were widely elected to seats in the United States House of Representatives. 
The Boston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest action which presaged the American Revolution.
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  William Molineux, American, participant in the Boston Tea Party  
In 1773 the paper gained much notoriety when it featured an article chronicling the unfolding of the Boston Tea Party and voicing popular support for this rebellious and historic event. 
While coffee is by far more popular, hot brewed black tea is enjoyed both with meals and as a refreshment by much of the population.
Similarly, iced tea is consumed throughout.
In the Southern states sweet tea, sweetened with large amounts of sugar or an artificial sweetener and chilled, is the fashion.
Outside the South, sweet tea is sometimes found, but primarily because of cultural migration and commercialization.
Tea also played a pivotal role in the American Revolution.
The colonists lived very much as the British did and consumed large quantities of tea, and when the crown put a tax on the transportation and sale of tea, it was a factor in the Revolution.
It proved a major tipping point in the form of the 1773 Boston Tea Party.
Tea consumption sharply decreased in America during and after the Revolution, when many Americans switched from drinking tea to drinking coffee because they considered tea drinking to be unpatriotic.
The American specialty tea market quadrupled in the years from 1993–2008, now being worth $6.8 billion a year.
Similar to the trend of better coffee and better wines, this tremendous increase was partly due to consumers who choose to trade up.
Specialty tea houses and retailers also started to pop up during this period.