THE QUESTION:Describe How the Boston Tea Party led to the American Revolution?
THE BRAINLIEST ANSWER: Boston Tea Party, incident on December 16, 1773, when a group of citizens in Boston, Massachusetts, dumped tea into Boston Harbor. It was one of several events that led to the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775.
Many colonists in America resisted the tea from the East India Company. Because the company appointed only certain American merchants as agents to distribute their tea, other merchants resented not being able to partake in the profits. Smugglers feared the loss of the valuable trade of Dutch tea. Popular politicians objected to the Tea Act on principle. They resisted “taxation without representation”—Britain taxing the colonists without giving them representation in government.
Throughout the colonies, people opposed the Tea Act. In most places, they either stored the tea or sent it back, but not in Boston. Led by Samuel Adams, the citizens of Boston would not permit the unloading of three British ships that arrived in Boston in November 1773 with 342 chests of tea. The royal governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, however, would not let the tea ships return to England until the colonists had paid the duty.
On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of Bostonians, many of them disguised as Native Americans, boarded the vessels and dumped the tea into Boston Harbor.
