History: The Rise Of Samuel Adams And The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea party was a political protest that took place on December 16, 1773 after the colonists got fed up with paying taxes on British tea. The British parliament put taxes on their imports to America. After colonists thought this was illegal and unfair, the British parliament stopped taxing all goods except tea. Few years later they passed out the Tea Act, which brought out the East India Company to relieve their debt. This company actually earned a lot of money by trading with America but the colonists thought this would put local British tea sellers out of business due to no customers. This led the Sons of Liberty to overthrow 342 crates of tea from the East India Company into the Boston Harbor.
Samuel Adams is the key leader in this protest because he was against the Tea Act which was pushing “taxation without representation”. Adams organized the Sons of Liberty and the Boston Committee of
On that night, three ships (Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor) sailed from London which carried the tea. When the destination was reached, the men tossed 342 chests of tea weighing at about 92,000 pounds into the Boston harbor. No one died during this movement but one person was arrested for participating. Everyone were all successful without any force in the end.
Weeks later after the party, the tea was dumped into the harbor caused it to have a bad smell. The British had to shut down the Harbor until all 342 chests of the tea were paid off which was incorporated in the Intolerable acts. Other acts were also carried such as Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, the Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act due to American colonists being more fed up with the British rule. The Boston Tea party was such a turning point that it sparked the birth of the American Revolution which began in Massachusetts on April 19,