The Boston Tea Party
In 1773 King George and the British Parliament decided to pass the Tea Act which would allow Britain to continue taxing tea on the colonists. Great Britain needed to keep the tea tax that was already enforced because they spent too much money in the war and had a debt to pay off. The colonists were angry enough that they had to pay for Britain's mistake but became furious when it began to negatively interfere with their commerce. It came to a point where the British were forcing the colonists to pay their debt and were harming their businesses. Great Britain gained almost full control of tea sales in America.
The British would send ships full of crates of tea Boston Harbor and make the colonists unload them. The colonists were fed up with this because they didn’t want to pay Britain anymore. The Tea Act motivated colonists to boycott the tea company. A group from the Sons of Liberty put the boycott plan into action. To prove their point, on the night of December 16, they dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped more than 90,000 pounds of British tea into the Boston Harbor to show Britain that they would no longer pay off their debt for them.