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Boston Tea Party Essay

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At the start of an evening on December 16, 1773, a horrible crime was committed. A group of Patriots who called themselves the Sons of Liberty boarded three British East India Company Ships and dumped hundreds of chests of perfectly good and cheap tea into the Boston Harbor to protest against the Tea Act. In order to sneak onto the ships and wreck havoc, they pretended to be Native Americans. The Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The gracious King has allowed these fools to live with only the punishment of paying for the ruined tea and housing the brave soldiers. They should have been put to jail for committing a felony and all of the colonies should become royal colonies. Not only did the Boston Tea Party

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