What Was The Boston Tea Party?

The Boston tea party was one of the precipitating events of the American Revolution. It occurred when the East India Company, a giant trading concern, was granted permission by the British parliament, through the 1773 Tea Act, to export tea to the American colonies without having to pay any British taxes on it. This would allow the East India Company to undercut American merchants engaged in the same trade.

The Americans, who had been simmering with discontent at British rule for some time, objected vehemently to this interference in their economy and society by the British parliament. As a result, when three ships arrived in Boston, loaded with the East India Company's tea, the Boston inhabitants refused to permit their cargo to be brought ashore.
Later, at night, a number of them, dressed up as Mohawk Indians, even going so far as to carry tomahawks and daub themselves with 'warpaint', boarded the three vessels moored in the harbour and dumped the tea overboard.

On hearing of the incident, Britain responded with further repressive measures which, in turn, provoked further resistance from the Americans.

Even though the British administration, ruling the Townshend returns acts a stoppage, revoked in 1770 all the duties except for that on tea, it in no means tranquil its decide to implement the other profitable policies it had forced on the settlements. In addition, legislative body determined to ease the British East India Company of the fiscal troubles into which it had fallen partially by the cause of the Tea act and the regal refuse that followed.

In 1773 it decided to go back to the Company the normal bring in duties, charged in England, on the entire tea transshipped to America. A little impost of three pence, to survived composed in America, was missing as a prompt of the principle laid down in the Declaratory Act that legislative body had the right to tax the settlers.

This agreement with the East India Company was loathsome to the settlers for some reasons. It was an act of preference for one thing, in the attention of a huge domination. For an additional thing, it assured to put on the American market, abruptly, a huge quantity of low-priced tea and so cause serious sufferers to American traders who had big stores on hand. It endangered with damage the trade of all persons who were affianced in secret deal with the Dutch.