Who started and affected the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 1

I suspect the notorious John Hancock. He was a big-time tea smuggler and had a lot to lose under the new legislation which allowed the British East India Company to bring tea into the American colonies tax-free. He was also suspected by the British authorities of illegal activity and had narrowly escaped from one criminal charge.

Answer 2

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.