The Boston Tea Party


On December 16, 1773, a group of men who called themselves the “Sons of Liberty”, dressed up as Indians and sneaked onto three ships in Boston Harbor. Cautiously under cover of darkness, they dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into the water. The Boston Tea Party happened because the people of Boston became angry when the British began taxing tea. It wasn’t that the tea tax was too high; it was because they had absolutely no say in the matter. The Americans resented being bossed around by England. The Boston Tea Party became a key event preceding the American Revolution.