December 15, 1773.

The Boston Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout the British colonies in North America against the Tea Act of 1773 which the colonists believed violated their right to proper representation in Parliament. They felt there was a violation of the equality Englishmen in the colonies shared with the Englishmen living in Britain. They were citizens of the same country and should be treated accordingly. While protesters in other colonies had prevented the unloading of taxed tea, in Boston, when the Royal Governor refused to allow the tea to be returned to Britain, they boarded the ships and threw the crates of tea over the sides and into the harbor.

This action led to parliamentary retributions and more protests by colonists, and this all led to the American Revolution two years later.

It also inspired people who were not happy with the United States government to form the Tea Party in 2009 in order to change the ways of Washington DC.

No.

Actually the Boston Tea Party was really about the people of that city protesting tea, and disrespecting the ships that had carried it into the harbor and the British flag they flew.

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