Boston Tea Party

    
      The British East Indian Company would bring tea to the colonies. The British Parliament passed a law allowing this company to sell the tea directly to the colonists. This made the tea cheaper than the one the colonists smuggle. Even though the tea the British East Indian Company sold was cheaper, the colonists refused to buy their tea.

On December 16, 1773, the Boston Patriots dressed up like Mohawk Indians for disguise, and boarded on ships that brought tea from England. After getting in, they threw all the tea into the ocean and this was called The Boston Tea Party. Over 300 boxes of English tea were thrown into the sea. This act was to protest the taxes they had placed on tea. The Sons of Liberty organized this Boston Tea Party. The Sons of Liberty was an organization trying to stop the British from taxing them.


According to a participant of this party called Ebenezer Stevens, they never really dressed as indians. Approximately 2/3 of the people who participated were supposedly under the age of 20. 9 protesters were age 40 and over, and there were 16 teenagers. A member of the Sons of Liberty tried to steal some tea before it was dumped into the harbor. A member of this organization was forbidden to steal tea from the ships. This member was punished. This more than 300 containers thrown into the sea totaled 90,000 pounds of tea.