Boston Tea Party
By: Travis and Dorothy

    On December 16,1773 a  group of men rowed boats out to the British tea ships anchored in the Boston harbor. They were dressed as Negroes and Mohawk Indians complete with headbands, tomahawks, and face paint. They were led by Samuel Adams. They dumped 342 chests of  British tea, valued to be worth more than 10,000 pounds, into the water.  This event came to be known as the Boston Tea Party.

The events that caused the Boston Tea Party to happen were;

• Great Britain tried to enforce a tax on tea
• Colonists refused to drink British tea
• Government  tried to force the colonists to accept a tea tax or Tea Act

    All of this happened in Boston, Massachusetts. As a result the colonists dumped the tea into the water. The king closed the harbor until the tea that had been dumped into the water had been paid for. The king also took away most of the colonists' rights of self- government.
    The people of Boston and other colonies were furious. Their fury led to the forming of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in September 1774.  This meeting united the colonies and was a giant step toward deciding in favor of the revolution.

We got our information from these sources:

Our Country,  Silver, Burdett, Ginn, Copyright 1995

Learning Library, Volume B

http://historictours.com/boston/teaparty.htm