Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party was an action taken by the colonists in Boston, Masachusets against the British Parliament and the East Indian Company, which controled all the tea going to the colonies. Colonists were tired of the ongoing taxation without representation problem, which had been around for more than 10 years already. During this times committees of correspondance had been made to organize boycots against all British imports. People were not buying, which only helped Britain's economy to go worse. Violence had happened, such as the Boston Masacre. All this lead to the Boston Tea Party.

Colonists got really angered when they got the Tea Act in 1773. They organized boycots and bought smuggled tea from other countries. Parliament then allowed to sell tea directly to the colonies, which made it cheaper than the smuggled tea, but colonists thought of it a trick to make them pay taxes. Ships were sent to the colonies, containing around 600,000 pounds of tea. When colonists heard about it, they started to prepare their plan.

A ship got to Boston on the night of Dec. 16, 1773. As town meetings were held, Samuel Adams and a group of around 130 men, disguised as indians, went to the ship and starting throwing the 342 chests of tea it contained into the water. This action angered the Parliament and they imposed the Coersive Acts