Lets Party like its 1773!!

By: Maria Guevara :)

The East India Company had controlled all the tea trading between the colonies. The British colonies started refusing to buy British tea. This left the company with lots of unsold tea, been at risk of ending bankrupt. This made the British government come up with the Tea Act. This allowed the British East India Company to sell directly to the colonies. And it was cheaper than the Dutch. The colonies once again demanded that the British government remove the tax on tea. In addition, the dockworkers began refusing to unload the tea from ships.

On the evening of December, 1773, the colonists disguised themselves as Indians armed with axes. They got in the British boats and dumped forty-five tons of tea into the ocean.