The Revolutionary War: The Boston Tea Party

In the colonies, thousands of miles away from the mother country of England, a revolution is stirring. Tensions are rough due to the colonist’s desire to be on their own and England’s attempt to reign in the rowdy Americans. To tighten the chains on the Americans after decades of salutary neglect the British try many things. They began to enforce the navigation acts that have been in place but overall ignored for decades. They also put in place new things like the Proclamation of 1763 which prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. In response, the Americans began to fight back with things like the Albany Plan of Union and the Boston Tea Party. Around 1756, the French and Indian war began. At the conclusion of this
This was a protest that consisted of 340 chests of tea being thrown into the Boston Harbor on the night of December 16th, 1773. The colonists did this because they were unhappy with Great Britain's Government’s decision of the tea tax. This dissatisfaction didn’t make very much sense but at this point, all the colonists wanted was to rebel and separate from England so they would complain about basically anything. What England did was lower the price of tea so that they could put a tax on it. Even with this newly added tax, the price of tea was still lower than before. Their unhappiness wasn’t about the price of the tea, it was about the long going debate of whether or not British Parliament had the power to levy taxes in the colonies. When the tea was arriving in the Boston Harbor, a band of colonists disguised as Indians began to approach. They got on board and demanded the tea be taken back to England, when the merchants refused, they took matters into their own hands. As one can imagine, Great Britain was pretty angry about what happened that night so they closed the Boston Harbor to trade and instituted more control but there was nothing they could do. The colonist’s craving for freedom was too great to control. Britain could create a death penalty for protesting but it wouldn’t even slow the colonists down. They were so determined to separate that they would stop at nothing to get what they