The Destruction Of The Boston Tea Party

On July 4th, the American colonies declared the independent of the Unite States, it was the result of the war between the American colonies and the Britain. A lot of people might have heard about the Boston Tea Party, a bunch of Americans dumped British tea into Boston Harbor, but many do not know how important it was. In fact, the Boston Tea Party was the trigger of the American Independent War. In the year of 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which were laws that put taxes on products which imported into the American colonies. The Britain thinks that they could take more money off from the American colonies and gain control on them, they made a law which allowing the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies, bypassing the colonial shippers and merchants. This act undercut the business of colonial merchants. …show more content…
People started a political protest which was known as the Destruction of the Tea in Boston, sponsored by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. John Adams was the head of the group. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships, some dressed in the Mohawk warrior disguises, together they dumped all 342 chests of tea, valued at 18,000, into the water in Boston Harbor.
The Boston Tea Party catalyzed the conflict between the American colonies and the Britain, as it led to the Independent War of America. If the colonies did not take the stand, America might not be exist today, it will still be part of the England. The Boston tea party was seems as the trigger or the start of the America revolution, if the Boston tea party did not happen, the revolution might not be succeed or it will be few more years late than