On December 16, 1776 protests by the Sons of Liberty in Boston were declared and created what we know as the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party is a protest of the British Parliaments Tea Act of 1773 a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering it tea tax and grantin it iot a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade, The low tax alowed the East India Company to to undercut even tee smugled into America by dutch traders, and many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxaton tyranny. When the tea ships arrived in Boston Harbor. It took almost Three hours for over One Hundred colonists to dump all the tea into the Boston Harbor. They dumped over Ninety Thousand pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor
