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The Boston Tea Party. Everything you need
to know.
In order to alleviate tension in the American
colonies, Parliament repealed most of the
Townshend Acts. Yet, King George III had been
determined to keep the tax on tea. Colonial
demand for tea was high, but American merchants
were smuggling in tea in order to avoid paying
duties on it. How did Parliament respond?
In 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act of
1773. The law was designed to help the British
East India Tea Company by giving it a monopoly
on tea imported into the colonies. The company
had a huge surplus of tea that was cheaper
than smuggled Dutch tea, even with the tax
on it. The company petitioned Parliament to
allow them to sell to the colonists directly,
arguing that it would help both the British
East India Tea Company and the British Empire.
Cheaper tea, they argued, should encourage
the colonists to stop smuggling Dutch tea,
and less smuggling should result in more tax
revenue for the empire.
Colonists still saw the law as a direct and
involuntary tax as the American duty on the
tea had not been dropped. In addition, much
of the colonial economy revolved around the
illegal activity of smuggling, and many merchants
feared for their business as a great deal
of their profits depended on the smuggled
tea.
Americans loved tea just about as much as
the English, and Parliament saw the Tea Act
as an opportunity to bring English tea back
into the colonies. The colonists� Townshend
boycotts had devastated the British economy.
320,000 pounds of East India tea was brought
into the colonies the year the law went into
effect. By 1772, that number had dropped to
530 pounds a year! Smuggling had caused so
much damage that the British East India Tea
Company was in danger of bankruptcy.
Soon, three ships loaded with British tea
sailed into Boston Harbor. The Sons of Liberty
refused to allow the tea to be unloaded, igniting
a 19-day face off with customs officials.
If the vessels set for 20 days, it became
illegal for the ships to return to England
with the cargo. Customs officials could then
seize the shipment and do with it as they
saw fit� customs officials who worked for
the Crown.
On the nineteenth night, the Sons of Liberty
asked one final time for the ships to return
to England. Governor Hutchinson refused. That
night, hundreds of Bostonians gathered in
the Old South Church. �I do not see what
more Bostonians can do to save their country,�
Sam Adams shouted.
War hoops pierced the air and men burst in,
hatchets in hand and faces painted in a poor
attempt to look like Indians. �The Mohawks
are a come!� one man shouted. �Tonight
Boston Harbor becomes a giant tea pot!�
About 50 in number, the Sons of Liberty marched
for the harbor by torch-light with a crowd
of several hundred curious citizens in tow.
A small group of customs officials were standing
guard and they were assaulted and thrown to
the dock. Given the option to leave their
post or suffer the consequences, they abandoned
the cargo.
Moonlight reflected in a golden tone off the
Atlantic as the Sons of Liberty seized 342
chests of tea, split them open, and tossed
them into the harbor. The cargo was worth
more than 10,000 pounds (nearly 2 million
dollars in today�s money).
Citizens awoke the following morning to an
amazing sight. Hundreds of busted, wooden
boxes littered the shoreline. The water still
had a light tan tint to it. John Adams wrote,
�The destruction of the tea is so bold,
so daring, so firm, so intrepid and inflexible,
it must have important consequences.�
And it did. Revenge and justice were on King
George III�s mind, and Britain�s heavy-handed
response would fuel resistance in all 13 colonies.
That is exactly what Sam Adams and the Sons
of Liberty hoped for!
History
The Tea Men are a quasi-reincarnation of the former New England Tea Men, who played in the old North American Soccer League from 1978 to 1980 and still have a strong recognition in the Boston soccer community.[1]