Boston Tea Party.

Maybe you have heard about the Boston Tea Party but we would like to inform you more about what happened back in 1773.

It all started with the French and Indian war. Since King George III and his government didn't have sufficient money to pay the cost of the war they decide to impose taxes on the American Colonies. The English imposed the American Colonies a lot of acts but they got really furious when they decided to tax tea and this is one of the things that fueled the American Revolution. So first the Parliament imposed the Townshend Act and the Colonists refused to follow it because they said they had no reason to pay when they had no representation in the Parliament. Then the parliament gave the East India Company a great monopoly since they allowed them to sell tea directly to the Colonies and this made tea cheaper but it still had taxes on it so the colonists refused to pay it even though it was far more cheap than the smuggled one.

One day in Boston, three ships of tea started a furiuos reaction among the colonists so the colonists decided that the three ships should leave the deck and that they wouldnt pay any more taxes. The Colonists sent someone to give the message, they took the message and they responded that they wouldn't leave if they didn't pay taxes. They got so mad that one day at evening some colonists dressed up like Native Americans, got in the ship and threw all the crates of tea into the ocean. They were dressed like this because they didnt want that Parliament to recognize them. This was called The Boston Tea Party.