Culture. US colonies. "No taxation without representation" Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest in Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773, where American colonists, disguised as Native Americans, dumped 342 chests of British tea into the water. It was a protest against the British Parliament's "taxation without representation," specifically the Tea Act of 1773, which gave the British East India Company a monopoly and still maintained a tax on tea. The event escalated tensions between Great Britain and the colonies, leading to the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) and fueling the movement toward the American Revolution.