The Boston Tea Party

After boycotting English goods The Townshend Act was repelled almost completly but there was a tax that remained and it was the tax they had in tea. The British East India Company had controlled all tea trading between India and the Colonies. As a result of the tax imposed on tea, the colonies refused to buy the British tea. Instead, they smuggled tea in from Holland. To prevent loses of the The British East India Company, Parliament  aprooved for the company to pass tea directly o the colonies which made tea cheaper (even with tax) that the smuggled Dutch Tea. Coloniest didn't accept this either they thought the Parliament was trying to trick them and make them pay taxes. So ina night of December 16, 1773 a group of Boston Patriots or part of  "The Sons of Liberty" went to the Boston Harbor, dressed as Mohawk Indians and boarded 3 British ships (called the Beaver, the Eleanor and the Dartmouth). They dumped 324 tanks or forty-five tons of tea into the Bosoton Harbor. This action made the crown and Parliament really angry so they decided to pass the Coersive Acts which included the Boston Port Act. The Boston Port Act meant that the harbor should be closed to every ship while the Bostonians payed the damage of the tea to The British East India Company.