the Boston Tea Party is also known as the Boston tea party event. In 1773, the people of Boston, a North American colony, opposed the monopoly of tea trade by the British East India Company. In 1773, the British government passed the Regulations on Relief of the East India Company for dumping the tea accumulated by the East India Company. This regulation gives the East India Company the patent right to sell the overstocked tea in the North American colonies, exempting it from paying high import duties and only levying a slight tea tax. The regulations explicitly prohibit the colonies from selling "private tea". As a result, the East India Company monopolized the distribution of tea in the North American colonies, and the price of imported tea was 5% cheaper than that of "private tea". This regulation caused great anger among the colonial people in North America, and people consumed nine-tenths of smuggled tea. People in new york, Philadelphia and Charleston refused to unload tea. In Boston, a group of young people headed by Hancock and samuel adams formed the Boston Tea Party. In November 1773, the East India Company's ship carrying 342 boxes of tea entered Boston Harbor. On December 16th, 8, people gathered in Boston, demanding that the East India Company tea boat parked there leave the port, but it was rejected. That night, under the organization of Boston Tea Party, anti-British people broke into the ship disguised as Indians and dumped all 342 boxes of tea (worth 18, pounds) from three boats of the East India Company into the sea. The British government adopted a high-handed policy. In 1774, it issued a series of decrees to block the Boston port, cancel the autonomy of Massachusetts, and freely station troops in the colonies. This aroused the strong resistance of the colonial people, which made the contradiction between the British government and the North American colonies sharp and the open conflict expanding day by day.
The Boston Tea Party was a political demonstration by Boston residents in Massachusetts against the British Parliament. It is the beginning of the violent action of the North American people against colonial rule, one of the key points of the American revolution and one of the major national myths of the founding of the United States.