Why Boston Tea Party?

The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade.

What was the real reason for the Boston Tea Party?

In simplest terms, the Boston Tea Party happened as a result of “taxation without representation”, yet the cause is more complex than that. The American colonists believed Britain was unfairly taxing them to pay for expenses incurred during the French and Indian War.

Was the Boston tea party a riot?

It Was a Riot. We do not care for the revolutionary spirit to survive the revolution. The revolution, however, goes nowhere without it.