The Boston Tea Party: A Part Of The American Revolution

In 1773, The tea act was passed and granted the British east India company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. The smuggling of tea grew rampant and was a lucrative business venture for American colonists, such as john Handcock and Samuel Adams… American colonists were outraged over the tea tax

The Boston tea party was part of the American revolution because they proved to be one of the many led to the American revolutionary war

The Boston Tea Party is also important because of the both the British and American response to the American responses to the actions that followed the tea party. The British were furious with the actions of the colonists and needed to impose a punishment for their rebellion. This came in the form of the intolerable acts.
The colonists saw these acts for control over the