For 10 points, name this 1773 event, which consisted of the cargo of the Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver being thrown overboard.
Monkhouse Davison was one victim of this event, for which he claimed 480 pounds restitution. The instigators of this event sought to have certain "consignees" excluded, as they had been in other cities, in one case after a protest led by Benjamin Rush. But since those consignees included the sons of Thomas Hutchinson, they received official protection where this event took place. The legislation that provoked this event did not lift the (*) Townshend duty, proceeds of which were used to pay royal officials, though this event can be interpreted as the action of a supply-restricting cartel since that legislation granted the East India Company the right to export directly to the colonies. That legislation gave rise to two specific grievances motivating this event: that it created officials who were loyal to the crown rather than the colonial assembly, and that it amounted to unconstitutional taxation without representation. For 10 points, name this 1773 event, which consisted of the cargo of the Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver being thrown overboard.
Monkhouse Davison was one victim of this event, for which he claimed 480 pounds restitution.
The Boston Tea Party