The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party

What is the Boston Tea Party, when it happend and how many things of tea were there

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts.

The colonist dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

Why did it happend and who started it

In simplest terms, the Boston Tea Party happened as a result of “taxation without representation”, yet the cause is more complex than that. The American colonists believed Britain was unfairly taxing them to pay for expenses incurred during the French and Indian War.

Who organized the Boston Tea Party? The Boston Tea Party was organized and carried out by a group of Patriots led by Samuel Adams known as the Sons of Liberty.

what was the point of The Boston Tea Party

It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea (which had been an example of taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company

why was the tea taxed,how much would it be today and why was it not stopped?

The tea tax was kept in order to maintain Parliament's right to tax the colonies. The Tea Act was not intended to anger American colonists, instead it was meant to be a bailout policy to get the British East India Company out of debt.

They were taxed 3 cents for every pound of tea and in todays money it would be more than $1,700,000 dollars

Protesters had prevented the unloading of tea in three other colonies, but in Boston, embattled Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to allow the tea to be returned to Great Britain

Does the Tea Tax still exist?

The Taxation of Colonies Act 1778 repealed the tea tax and others that had been imposed on the colonies, but it proved insufficient to end the war. The Tea Act became a "dead letter" as far as the Thirteen Colonies were concerned, and was formally removed from the books in 1861.