Because they were charging high tax on this item and therefore they choose tea to protest.
Boston tea party
They still drank tea. It was a protest they did by throwing the tea overboard not a boycott. Soon after the Boston Tea Party, a shortage of imported tea forced the colonists to substitute bee balm as a tea during the shortage.
The boston tea party
It was called the Boston Tea Party.
Nothing. It was a protest.
Boston Tea Party
The protest that resulted in the passing of the Intolerable Acts of 1774 was the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the high taxes on imported tea.
Boston Tea Party
They made up the Boston Tea Party and threw tea into the river.
The colonists were responsible for the Boston tea party.
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party.