The Boston Tea Party

  The Boston Tea Party

     In 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act, it granted the financial troubled company British East India Company which gave an exclusive to export the tea to the Americas. American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from that company which angered the Colonists. The parliament exported and sell the tea at a very very low price compared to other tea suppliers but colonists wouldn't buy it Colonists thought this was also "taxation without representation". Colonists thought they were trying to induce them into accepting this tax. This was the situation in Boston that led to the Boston Tea Party.

      In response to the unpopular act, tea agents in many American cities resigned from accepting the tea and the merchants stopped buying it . In Boston, however, Governor Thomas Hutchinson gave the order that three ships arriving in Boston Harbor would be allowed to despoit their cargoes and that they would be well payed for the goods. This lead about sixty men, including some members of the Sons of Liberty, to board the ships disguised as Native Americans, on the night of December 16, 1773  and dump the tea chests into the water. The event became known as the Boston Tea Party.

     This event shows how just how crazy patriots were, but the good kind of crazy. Interestingly, Abraham Lincoln was against it. He resented the action and thought it went overboard. (Checkmate). In the end the Boston Tea Party brought a lot of problems for the colonists, like the Boston Port Act and the Quartering Act of 1774, but it's the message that mattered. A few other tea partied happened among the colonies, but non as big or controversial as the original. The Boston Tea Party has been, without doubt, one of the most important acts of revolution in history.