The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party

The Boston tea party was probably the most important of the many attacks from the Boston's Sons of Liberty to England. This event was a political protest from the Sons of Liberty that took place on Massachusetts on December 16, 1773. There was a boat of taxed tea that the colonists wanted to return to Britain but the officials refused and the boat was left in the harbor. As a form of protesting against this tea and the officials, a group of colonists entered the boat and threw all of the tea into the Boston Harbor. So the responsible people of this event weren't judged or taken into trial, they masked and dressed as mohawk indians. This tea was from the East India company which was the one that controlled and sold all legal tea imported into the American colonies.

In that time, tea is so important because the Parliament had levied many taxes on the colonists without giving them representation and all the unfair taxes were taken off them except the one for tea. These taxes were charged in customs for sugar, paint, lead, all printed paper, and glass. England thought that the right action was to tax the colonists the way they taxed their people back in England and the colonists would've accepted but with representation in government. This exception was merely to show the colonists that England was the one with all of the power and that they could do whatever they pleased. It is so nonsense that only because England did not want to include colonists in Parliament they rather spend a lot of money in security. At this point, the colonists considered themselves as a different country from England and wanted their own laws and taxes, which later concluded in the American Revolution.

So intense was the colonists' loyalty between them when conspiring against England that nobody from the ones that took part in the Boston Tea Party kept any tea with them, the ones that kept some of it were going to be killed. Also, the price of the tea had dropped a lot because England let the East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists and the colonists still bought smuggled Dutch tea. Smuggling was a very good business for the colonies but later, the law became stronger and smuggling became very difficult, but the Dutch still smuggled their tea. People bought the smuggled tea because the colonies were boycotting against England. To boycott is to refuse to buy or to handle products from certain source and that was one of the kinds of protests the colonists did. Everyone made part of the boycott and even women started to make their own clothes and everything they needed from England, they were called the Daughters of Liberty.