The Boston Tea Party was a political protest against the British government’s tax policy on tea.
The American colonists were outraged at this new tax. The biggest problem was that the British government had passed a law that said that all colonist had to pay an import tax on all tea brought into their colonies from England. The colonists didn’t mind paying taxes on items they bought in their colonies, but they did not want to pay for anything imported from England. They thought this was unfair because the British made money off of them whenever they sold goods to them, but now they had to pay taxes just for buying things like tea and other goods from England?
The protesters were American colonists who dumped crates of tea into the Boston Harbor as a way to protest the tax.
The colonists were unhappy with British rule over their lives, so they decided to take action against it by dumping crates of tea into Boston harbor on December 16th 1773 (or December 15th). This event became known as “The Boston Tea Party” because it took place in Boston Harbor where there was a lot of commerce and shipping going on at the time.
The Boston Tea Party led directly to war between Britain and America because it showed that the Americans would resist unjust laws by any means necessary.
