Cooper

The Boston Tea Party By: Cooper

It all started in 1770 when Parliament took back all unpopular taxes except the tea tax. All of the colonists cherished their tea but didn't want to buy it from Britain. As a result the British East India Company was losing a tremendous amount of money. To save the company in 1773 Parliament passed the Tea Act. The act stated that British East India Company was the only tea company that could sell tea the the colonies. The Tea Act additionally lowered the cost of tea but the colonists were still enraged so in fact that the group the Sons of Liberty started planning. On December 16, 1773 a group of men from the Sons of Liberty dressed up as the Mohawk Indians and climbed aboard the 3 tea ships from The East India Company in Boston Harbor. There they split and opened hundreds of boxes of tea and dumped almost 90,000 pound of loose tea into the freezing water. King George was Furious. Resulting in the "Intolerable Acts". I believe you can read about the Intolerable Acts in Everett's Summary.