The Boston Tea Party
One of the major events that led to the American Revolution was the anger of a group of Boston citizens to the British tax on tea imported to the colonies.
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY was a raid by American colonists on British ships in Boston Harbor. It took place on December 16, 1773. A group of citizens disguised as Indians, armed with tomahawks threw the contents of 342 chests of tea into the bay in retaliation over a tax which had been placed by the British Parliament on tea coming into the colonies. The colonists called town meetings and came up with resolutions to stop the importation.
