Long ago,
before the United States of America was founded, England put a tax on almost
everything for the colonists, which naturally made them very angry. Then the
English started to regret making all those taxes, so they removed it from
everything but the tea. They kept the tea under tax to show that they still had
authority over the colonists. The colonists were angry that they were being
taxed for the tea, and wanted a say in the government. They thought they were
being treated like slaves.
A ship full of
tea approached the harbour, and the colonists agreed that the tea shouldn't reach land. Colonists dressed as Indians leaped aboard the ship with their
weapons and tossed all 342 chests of tea into the ocean. This happened on the date
the 16th of December 1773.
The colonists
were still dressed as Native Americans as they walked passed the house that
Admiral Montague was staying at for the night. Montague demanded the colonists pay
the taxes for the lost tea crates. The colonists told him to come out and they
would give him payment for the taxes. But he made a wise decision and decided
to let them not pay for the lost chests. The Boston Tea Party was a grand leap
in the colonists becoming independent.
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