What happened at the Boston tea party?

SINCE the discovery of America in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, Europeans were migrating to America and settling there. The British had thirteen colonies on the eastern coast of North America. These British settlers of America (or Americans) waged a war against the British from 1775 to 1783 to win independence. The Boston tea party is an important event in the history of the American Revolutionary War.

The British government had imposed many taxes on Americans, which the Americans considered harsh. They protested against these taxes, saying that they were not obliged to pay taxes imposed by a Parliament in which they had no representation. The British Parliament responded by withdrawing these taxes but imposed a tax on tea. This angered Americans.

In 1773, three tea ships arrived at a harbor at Boston in Massachusetts colony. On December 16, 1773, Bostonians held a political meeting and decided to take some drastic action. That evening, around two hundred Bostonian men, some dressed as Mohawk Indians, went aboard the ships and threw the tea into the harbour waters. This act is known as the Boston tea party. In other sea-ports of the British colonies of America, similar acts were performed.

Subsequent events after the Boston tea party further soured relations between Americans and the British finally leading to the American War of Independence.