Boston Tea Party

The British East India Company had controlled all tea taxing between India and the British colonies. As a result of the tea tax, the colonies refused to buy the British tea. Instead, they smuggled tea in from Holland. On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of men calling themselves Sons of Liberty went to the Boston Harbor. The men wre dressed as Mohawk Indians. They boarded three British ships, the Beaver, the Eleanor and the Dartmouth, and dumped FORTY-FIVE TONS OF TEA into the Boston Harbor.