The Boston Tea Party

In December 16/1773, a group of men calling themselves the "Sons of Liberty" went to the Boston Harbor. The men were dressed as Mohawk Indians. They boarded three British ships, the Beaver, the Eleanor and the Dartmouth, and dumped forty-five tons of tea into the Boston Harbor.

When the colonists refused the Townshend Acts from the Government and refused to pay taxes on imported goods. The solution they found was that they should make a boycott on British goods except tea.


Few people realize that when the tea went overboard in Boston Tea Party on December 16/1773, the War for Independence was actually beginning, because the boston tea party was a rebellion against British goods and the tea that was like the most important good that British exported, the tea helped England in a good way but it left the colonists poor beacuse of the big amount of taxes.