Another historical fight with the British Empire ended up being the biggest tea party in history. But it wasn’t a very quite afternoon tea party. It was a battle that would start the beginning of setting a new land free to become its own country. It was the ultimate protest to the measure that protests fought today can sometimes have references of the Boston Tea Party. A small reminder of the fight goes a little something like this. The British Empire was still trying to hold onto the new found America land as part of a new colony. The French and Indian War cost a lot for the British so they were looking for a way to pay for it. King George III wanted to tax the American colonies to get his money back. The were also trying to solidify their control over the new colonies who had become a bit more independent while the King was distracted with the war. There had been a few events that angered the colonists like the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townsend Acts and the Boston Massacre. They were already angry so now that the King wanted to tax the tea that was imported they were as angry as stoned beehive.
Tea at that time was a major staple to the colonial life. Not having tea was not an option. So the King thought. But the colonists would rather give up their tea than give the King any power or money. The colonials stopped the ships coming to major cities like Philadelphia, New York and Charleston from unloading the tea. One cold December, 7,000 angry colonists lingered on the dock. They had decided in the morning that the ships were to be sent back full of tea with no duty paid. When British customs refused to send the ships away, the crowd made a plan and made there way onto the three ships and dumped the cargo of tea into the harbor. Of course the King was now pissed and passed the Intolerable acts which closed the Boston Port and sparked the fire of the American independence. Visitors can come and look across the harbor near the site of the big event but the Boston Tea Party Ship museum was taken down by fire. There are still many historical landmarks that will make your head spin. You can find information at your Boston hotel.
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