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Boston Tea Party (BTP) is an important milestone event in the era of American Revolution. During the early days of America, Britain was controlling and patrolling America.

The East India Company imports the tea into Britain by paying 25% duty and sells it wholesale in auction. This tea is again sent to American colonists. Due to this heavy duty of 25%, the tea sales of Britain have come down as it could not compete with Dutch tea companies. This is because Dutch government does not recieve any tax on Tea. In order to handle this issue, the British Parliament passed an Act during the year 1773 which helped East India Company to import tea into India and thereby Britain can directly export tea to its colonists. This Act was known as ‘Tea Act’. To compromise the 25% duty, the law also insisted the American colonists to pay the same when the tea is imported to them.

Due to this American colonists were agitated and started protesting against this act. The protestors were successful in preventing the import of Tea into their country and the ship consignments were sent back to England. On 16th December 1773, a ship with Tea consignments was placed in the Boston harbor. Even after insisting to send back the consignment, the ship was unmoved as the officials were very stubborn. A group of protestors boarded the ship and perished the tea consignments by throwing them into the sea.

This was the first remarkable feel of Agitation shown by American colonists.

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