Boston Tea Party

After some officials in Boston refused completely to return 3 shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ship and destroyed the Tea by throwing it in the Boston Harbor.

The Tea Party was the end of a "resistance movement" throughout British against the Tea Act ( act of the Parliament of Great Britain to expand the British East India Company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies, selling excess tea at a reduced price) which was passed in 1773 by the Parliament. Colonists said they should only be taxed by their own elected representatives.

Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution.