The Boston Tea Party is a popular nickname for an uprising that took place on December 16, 1773 in Boston. The action was a reaction to the tea tax that the king of Great Britain had imposed on the colony. The tax had been levied to cover the king's own luxury consumption and the war against the French. Previously, the colony had been subject to many other taxes, but these had been removed at the request of the Americans. It was just the tea tax left. A group of Americans dressed up as Indians and hijacked a merchant ship as it landed. They threw all the tea at sea, this was 45 tons of tea worth 50,000 dollars.
