Boston's Tea Party

             Colonists didn't want anymore taxed to be levied on them without representation. Adam Samuel made the Committees of Correspondence to Communicate in 1773, by 1773 many other colonies not only Boston had this committee. This made parliament to withdraw all the troops and back down all the taxes except the one for tea.  The tea boycotts decreased the economy, and increased problems to the British East Indian Company. The parliament passed a law that the British East Indian Company should sell tea directly to the colonists. Even though English tea was cheaper colonists bought Dutch tea that was more expensive. Colonists thought parliament was tricking them, but continued buying the English tea.

Colonists refused to pay the Townshend Act. In boston when three ships got to the harbor full of tea, the colonists saw the opportunity to mess with the british. On the evening of December 16, 1773 the men that called themselves "Sons of Liberty" planned a boycott against the british. They dressed themselves as Mohawk Indians. They went to the boston harbor and boarded the three British ships, the Beaver, the Eleanor, and the Dartmouth. Once inside they dumped forty-five tons of tea into the Boston Harbor. This was the massage to the English men saying they wouldn't accept any taxes without representation. As you might imagine the parliament, the king and all the engish men didn't react very well to what they have done. 

All of the british government was very disappointed with the colonists that did this. In response to the disaster Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts. This acts said that they will close the Boston Port until all the debt of the dumped tea was paid. in the end they didn't free themselves from the British because they had to pay. Also the intolerable Acts served as on of the reasons that led to the American Revolution. It also helped for the revolutionaries in the thirteen colonies to fight for their independence because the wouldn't tolerate British controlling them.