The Boston Tea Party was an American Colonial defiance that protested against taxation on tea.
On the night of December 16, 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and and threw 342 chests of tea overboard into the Boston Harbor.
Several mass meetings were held to demand that the tea be sent back to England with the duty unpaid.
The midnight raid, was a protest against the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it complete control over the American tea trade.
Parliament, outraged by the very obvious destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts of 1774, also known as the Intolerable Acts, which punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed.. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congressto consider a united American resistance to the British.
On the night of December 16, 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and and threw 342 chests of tea overboard into the Boston Harbor.
Several mass meetings were held to demand that the tea be sent back to England with the duty unpaid.
The midnight raid, was a protest against the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it complete control over the American tea trade.
Parliament, outraged by the very obvious destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts of 1774, also known as the Intolerable Acts, which punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. For example, one of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed.. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congressto consider a united American resistance to the British.