Boston Tea Party

December 16, 1773

Lord Frederick North devised the Tea Act, granted the British East India Company to sell tea to colonies without a tax, but colonial tea merchants still had the tax. Known as a "drunken plan", colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped 324 boxes of British tea into the ocean. The colonists were angry that a British company was being favored, and the British created the Intolerable Acts.