The Boston Tea Party



After all the protests made by colonists, all taxes were repelled (1770) except for the taxes on TEA.  People started this movement against Tea Act called de Tea Party, this movement was passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Protesters had successfully prevented the unloading of taxed tea in three other colonies, but in Boston, Thomas Hutchinson refused to allow the tea to be returned to Britain. He never expected colonists acting in another way than we thought. People started the boycott and this gave problems to the British East India Company.

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. A group of colonists disguised themselves as Indians, the dumped 342 trunks of tea in all.