Why did the colonist commit the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 1

The purpose of the Boston Tea Party, was to show the British government that the colonists were mad that they were being taxed on Tea. So a group of men called the Sons of Liberty, threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor, to show their anger.

Answer 2

The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773 occurred when a group of Massachusetts Patriots protested the price of American Tea importation. King George and his government looked into taxing the tea as a way of making up for their war costs.

Answer 3

Hancock paid and organized it and had Samuel Adams organize the men.They didn't dress up. This is part of the fable. The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the lowering of the cost of the British tea by the government and the East India tea company who had gotten a bail out from the crown in 1773. The smugglers in the colonies found the Dutch tea that they sold was higher in price than the British tea, so they staged the Boston Tea Party and others in harbors in the colonies ( Hamilton was one of the largest smugglers in the colonies and a founding member of the Son's of Liberty). The cost of tea also went as far back as the Navigation Acts and the restricting of trade to and from the colonies passed from 1650-1733. Tea was also taxed in 1767 in the Townsend Acts.

Answer 4

I need to correct some of the facts below. Yes, the tea was thrown into the harbor by the Sons of Liberty, but it wasn't because of high taxes as the legendary story goes. The Sons of Liberty were organized by Sam Adams and the money man was John Hancock. They were the biggest smugglers in the colonies and their chief interest was protecting their business. Three-fourths of the tea sold was smuggled Dutch tea and the tea party was organized to save the smugglers from economic ruin. The British had LOWERED the tea tax which made the price of the smuggled tea higher in cost. The taxes that the British levied against the colonies had little impact on the American colonists. They paid less taxes than their British counterparts. Another point about the Boston Tea party that is little known is that not everyone was happy about it. Washington thought it would bring retaliation and Franklin said that the cost of the tea should be paid back to the East India Company.

Answer 5

To protest the tax parliament had levied on tea

Answer 6

To protest the tax Parliament had levied on tea

Answer 7

To protest against the high taxes