Yesterday - December 16th - marked the 248th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
The Boston Tea Party was perhaps the most famous protest of the Revolutionary period.
The Tea Act itself is a bit convoluted, but the gist of American opposition to the Act is twofold: First, the colonists opposed the Act because it violated the principle of “No Taxation Without Representation,” a point of broad agreement even among those loyal to the British Crown. Second, the taxation scheme of the Tea Act favored British business over American business. Tea was highly symbolic of the British regime as a whole as well as this conflict.
Learn more about the event that sparked the American Revolution at Ammo.com.
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