<P> 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 ." </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 replica ships of the period, Eleanor and Beaver . Additionally, the museum possesses one of two known tea chests from the original event, part of its permanent collection . </P>

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