If you mean the Boston tea party then in my opinion they did it out of extreme anger. They had pretty much nothing else they could do and thought well why not dress up as Indians and go destroy a bunch of tea. The way I'm explaining it probably sucks but to me that's how it seems.
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Explanation: Standard Oil in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Court found that Standard was an illegal monopoly and ordered it broken into 34 separate companies. Bloodied, Rockefeller and Standard were hardly defeated.