The Boston Tea Party: Taxation Without Representation

On December 16, 1773,  a disguised and disgruntled band of colonists boarded British ships. The band was dressed as Mohawk  Indians, and called themselves the Sons of Liberty.

This act of defiance was a protest against the Tea Act and “taxation without representation”.  And so originated the famous historic scene, known to anyone who attended a public elementary school; that of the dumping of 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.

What did the British do in response? They passed the punitive Coercive (Intolerable) Acts. 

As a result the Boston Harbor was closed, to which the colonists became a step closer to revolution; The American Revolution,  April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783, that gave us the beginning of our country and its independence.