Jayme

The Boston Tea Party By : Jayme

In the Boston Tea Party the British Government and the British King were taxing the colonists. The parliament passed the tea act to save the tea company in 1773. The act said that only the British East India Tea Company could sell tea to the colonists. They taxed a lot of money money for that tea. The colonists got so mad that a group known as the Whigs or the Sons of Liberty boarded 3 ships when they docked. Some of them were dressed as Mohawk Indian when they boarded. They broke open 342 tea chests and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into the harbor. The Whigs or Sons of Liberty were careful not to damage anything else but the tea. One of the most famous quotes was "No taxation with- out representation." This also proved to be one of the causes that led to the American Revolutionary War.