The colonists were enraged with the British for imposing “taxation without representation." They made a plan to boycott a British-owned East India Company boat and dump the tea into the ocean.
Sir, we're almost there!
Excellent!
The Boston Tea Party, 1773
TEA
Everyone push!!
TEA
TEA
TEA
They followed the plan and ended up pushing 342 boxes of tea into the ocean.
THE TEA!!
EA
TEA
TEA
We did it!
TEA
All this caused the British authority to close Boston Harbor, made colonists house British troops, and made meetings illegal.
