The American Revolution was a very important event in the course of our history. One of the conflicts between the British and the Colonists took place during the year of 1773, when colonists protested the use of tariffs on tea placed by the British. This protest was one of the main reasons why the American Revolution was fought.
             The Boston Tea Party was significant to the American independence, because this was one of the many protests of British rule over the colonies. This finally led to a war which in the end granted the colonies their independence.
             In the year of 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which were laws that put taxes on various products imported into the British colonies. This brought so much controversy, that in 1770 these laws were repealed. The merchants in Boston avoided the act by receiving smuggled tea from Dutch traders. In 1773, the Parliament decided to pass the Tea Act. This was designed to aid the people in East India with financial problems. The tea sent to the colonies were to be carried only in East India Company ships. Also, the tea was to be sold only through its own agents, evading the independent colonial shippers and merchants. This created a monopoly by selling tea at a lower price than both the colonies and Britain. The idea of monopoly drove the colonist merchants into an alliance with extremists led by Sam Adams and his Sons of Liberty.
             Many of the big cities in the colonies canceled their orders of tea, and merchants refused shipments. In the city of Boston, the royal governor Thomas Hitchinson, who was determined to maintain the law and keep the shipments flowing, allowed three ships, the Dartmouth, Beaver, and Eleanor, to deposit their cargoes and that their tasks should be taken very seriously.
             On the night of December 16, 1773, a group of about 60 men, encouraged by a large crowd of Bostonians, put on some Indian clothing and head dresses. They march
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