Boston Tea Party

This party is to draw of the destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor, few of men dumping the tea were actually disguised as American Indian.  This party was a direct action by colonist in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British Government. Happen on December 16, 1773, after official in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain.

Protestor had successfully prevented the unloading of taxed tea in three other colonies, but in Boston embattled. Refused to allow the tea to be returned to Britain, the protestor choose to destroy the tea rather then concede the authority of a legislature in which they were not directly represented.

Until 1967, the East India company paid an ad valorem tax of about 25% on tea that it imported into Great Britain. These high taxes, combined with the fact that tea imported into Holland was no tax, this mean that Britons and British Americans could buy smuggled Dutch tea at much cheaper prices. The biggest market for illicit tea was England.

This tea party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution Parliament, among other provisions closed of Boston’s Commerce until the British East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea. The crisis then escalated, the American Revolutionary War began near Boston in 1775.

The Boston Tea Party has often been referenced in other political protests. American activists from a variety of political viewpoints have invoked the Tea Party as a symbol of protest. In 1973, on the 200th anniversary of the Tea Party, a mass meeting at Faneuil Hall called for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon and protested oil companies in the ongoing oil crisis. Afterwards, protesters boarded a replica ship in Boston Harbor, hanged Nixon in effigy, and dumped several empty oil drums into the harbor. In 1998, two conservative US Congressmen put the federal tax code into a chest marked "tea" and dumped it into the harbor.