Boston Tea Party

The french and indian war was very costly for the british, so they start looking for a way to get money back, and they decided that since they waste lots of money in the colonists, they should pay taxes to help briton get up from their economic situation. So there is when a series of actions appear, such as the stamp act, the Townsend act, and the boston act between others. But it was the crowns attempt to tax tea that take the colonists to action.

But the parliament decided to tax the colonists by the imported tea, and they will be getting the tea by a chipper price than even before, but they notice that if they pay that tax they will be accepting the parliament right to tax them. So the colonists did not let themselves fooled by parliament. so when west india company send shipments of tea to New York and Philadelphia, the ships where not allowed to land. But in charleston the tea laden ships where allowed, but the tea stay in a warehouse for 3 years until it was sold by patriots to help finance the revolution.

In Boston the arrival of 3 tea ships ignited a furious reaction. A mass meeting at the old south meeting house that morning resolve that the tea ships should leave the harbor without the payment of any duty. The collector of customs refuse to allow the ships to leave without the payment of any duty. so a group of 200 men some disguised as indians assembled in a near by hill. whopping war chants they descended upon the 3 ships and dumped their offending cargos of tea onto the harbor waters. and these was known as the Boston Tea Party.