The Boston Tea Party       December 16, 2010 As you well know, in 1773, colonists gathered to dump imported tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the British government’s oppressive tax system that allowed for no direct representation. At the Boston Tea Party, determined colonists stood against the expanding British authority and said no more!   The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and … [Read more...]