The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party marks one of many movements made by the American colonists to get rid of the British presence in the thirteen colonies. As the taxation begins to worry many in America, taxation implemented by Parliament and King George III, infuriated many Americans, many did not agree with the British government. The notion became clear, and widely popular, a revolution must happen in order to get rid of British presence from American sovereignty and affairs.

The British had just fought and helped the Native Americans in a costly war, the French and Indian war, which had ultimately cost the British government a lot of money, a very expensive war for Britain, and a tragic one for France, after losing Quebec and its former territories in the New World. The presence of British troops in the thirteen colonies was evident, with many British troops being harbored in the American colonies, whom to many seemed to be no problem, not until the taxation of King George III was implemented.

As the British government began to implement the taxation on the American colonists to help pay for a very unpopular war in the colonies, the colonists would refuse to pay such a heavy price for something not fought for. The American colonists furiously turned their shoulders to the British government, believing that such an act was not right and that the British government had no right to implement such a tax on the colonists, taking away their rights whilst the English have more freedoms than those in the colonies. For the next three years, the British government will implement more laws and taxes, restricting many of the colonists' rights and taxing them, only making matters worse for the British presence in the America's. The Tea Act, one of many acts to be passed by the British government, taxing .3 cents of tea on the colonists, gave more reason to rebel against the British government.

The colonists finally grew tired of such a notion, dressing up as Native Americans on the night of December 16th, 1776, the Sons of Liberty went down to Boston harbor, dressed in Mohawk representations, to go in protest against the taxations implemented by the British. With more than 5,000 colonists joining the cause, the idea of revolution became popular, and spread throughout the colonies. The colonists climbed the British merchant ships of the East India Tea company and threw out as many as 10 thousand British pounds, or 342 crates of tea. The British were furious, and the brink of war was near.