- Walled area of the State House Yard
December 27, 1773
You may be familiar with the Boston Tea Party only a few weeks before on December 16, 1773, but did you know that Philadelphia had it’s own tea party on this day in history? Over 8,000 Philadelphia residents, which was a whopping 1/3 of the city’s population then, rallied in support of the tea tax rebellion at the State House yard.
This was the largest assembly in the American colonies up to that date. It was determined that the tea would be refused. The Philadelphia Tea Party was a nonviolent group that honorably defended their belief that the tea tax by the Brits was indeed unfair, they never destroyed any of the imported tea that was denied, causing no loss to the innocent merchants of the product.
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