How did the Boston Tea Party get its name?

Answer 1

They didn't dress up. This is part of the fable. The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the lowering of the cost of the British tea by the government and the East India tea company who had gotten a bail out from the crown in 1773. The smugglers in the colonies found the Dutch tea that they sold was higher in price than the British tea, so they staged the Boston Tea Party and others in harbors in the colonies ( Hamilton was one of the largest smugglers in the colonies and a founding member of the Son's of Liberty). The cost of tea also went as far back as the Navigation Acts and the restricting of trade to and from the colonies passed from 1650-1733. Tea was also taxed in 1767 in the Townsend Acts.

Answer 2

The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the lowering of the cost of the British tea by the government and the East India tea company who had gotten a bail out from the crown in 1773. The smugglers in the colonies found the Dutch tea that they sold was higher in price than the British tea, so they staged the Boston Tea Party and others in harbors in the colonies ( Hamilton was one of the largest smugglers in the colonies and a founding member of the Son's of Liberty). The cost of tea also went as far back as the Navigation Acts and the restricting of trade to and from the colonies passed from 1650-1733. Tea was also taxed in 1767 in the Townsend Acts.

Answer 3

Because American colonists threw Britishteainto the Boston harbor. It is just an ironically funny name that stuck.

From 1756 to 1763 the American colonists were fighting the British colonists because the were taxing paper and tea so in 1773 a group of fifty American colonists disguised as American Indians boarded a British ship at a Boston port and threw 300 chests of tea into the sea..............

Answer 4

Because in 1773, a group of colonists in Boston protested against Britain by throwing 3 shiploads of tea overboard.

Answer 5

Because American colonists threw British tea into the Boston harbor. It is just an ironically funny name that stuck.