Boston Tea Party Research Paper

On December 16, 1773 there was a trouble between the British and the American colonists. British thought planning the boston tea party would be useful, but that makes the cost of British tea became higher. Well, the Boston Tea party was not what the british expect it to turn out like.
British were trying to recover the cost that they had spent in war, and trying to regain control of the colonist. In order to make more money off of the lucrative tea trade by imposing taxes onto the american colonies, British think boston tea party would help. American colonists suspect that British was unfairly taxing them to pay for expenses incurred during french and Indian war. Colonist believe Parliament did not have the right to tax them since american colonist were not represented in Parliament. The american colonist were outraged over the tea tax and assume the tea act was a plan to gain colonial support for the tax.
Who organized the Boston Tea party were the sons of liberty. The

Benjamin Franklin offered to pay for the condition of tea that was dumped. The tea that was just got dumped was originally came from China not Britain because of the lucrative trade. Only one member of the sons of liberty was caught, Francis Akeley. Akeley was imprisoned for participation of the disguising and dumping tea. He’s the only person ever to be arrested for the Boston Tea party. Three months later on March 1774, there was a second boston tea party about sixty man disguised themselves and boarded the ship Fortune and dump 30 chest of tea. Boston Tea Party got it’s name about until early 1820s, it was actually used to called the “Destruction of the tea.” Even though boston tea party was devastated and cause a huge damage, it had a great impact on the people today, and as well as this country leading to American