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The Boston Tea-Party By: Jon Geller U.S. History I Research paper 12/2/08 The Boston Tea Party took place December 16, 1773. It was a major event that lead to the Revolutionary war and America declaring independence from Britain in 1776. With tea being as popular drink as it was in the 1700s, this was the perfect way for the American’s to rebel against the suppressing British. In the 1770s, Great Britain was implementing many taxes on its colony in America. Britain wanted to raise money to become rich. One way that Britain could increase their profits from their colony was to implement taxes on the colonists. The British applied taxes on everything being imported to the colonies and coming out of the colonies. After a few years of taxation, colonist began to feel pressured by the British. They were being taxed without representation. This angered the colonists for many years. Eventually, the colonists got fed up with this taxation without representation. A breaking point was bound to happen. With the East India Company in so much trouble, the British government implemented the Tea Act to help get the Company back on its feet. However, many colonists did not like the tea act and rebelled. They refused to accept any incoming British ships carrying tea. They felt that England was still attempting to suppress them with all of the other acts that had been enacted upon them. The Boston Tea Party is known as one of the major sparks in the American Revolution in the 1770s. It was one of the last straws that the Colonists had against the British. The popularity of tea in the 1700s made the Boston Tea Party the perfect way to get back at the British for all of their tax imposing acts. It showed that colonists in British Americanwere tired of taking all of Great Britain’s abuse.
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