The Boston Tea Party

BOSTON TEA PARTY

The Boston Tea Party was basically the destruction of British tea. This was a political protest made by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The Tea Party was the end of a resistance movement against the Tea Act. This act, passed by the British parliament in 1773 stated that the colonists should pay taxes for the tea. Obviously, colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that violated their rights. Previously, other acts were passed but were dropped. The only tax left was the one of on tea. Colonists believed they shouldn't pay taxes if they didn't have any representation in the British parliament. They called this "Taxation without representation". 

Colonists wanted to emphasize their point in Avery public way so they conceived a plan. In 17773, the Davidson Newman Company of London sent a ship loaded with tea to the harbor at Boston. A group of colonists disguised themselves as Mohawk warriors. Disguising their individual faces was imperative because of the illegality of their protest. That evening a group of 30 to 130 men some disguised as Mohawk warriors boarded the vessel full of tea. Over the course of three hours, these men dumped in the Boston harbor about 324 chests of tea. 

 

 The help of Samuel Adams in planning the Boston Tea Party is suspected. But he immediately tried to defend this act by saying that the Boston Tea Party was a protest in which the people defended their rights. Samuel Adams tried to say that every government need a constitution, written or not. In February, 1775, Britain passed the Conciliatory Resolution, which ended taxation for any colony. The tax on tea was repealed with the Taxation of Colonies Act 1778. The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution.