On December 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Incident occurred.

The Boston Tea Party is also known as the Boston Tea Party. In 1773, the people of Boston, a North American colony, opposed the monopoly of the tea trade by the British East India Company. In 1773, the British government passed the Ordinance for the Relief of the East India Company in order to dump the accumulated tea of the East India Company. The Ordinance granted the East India Company the patent right to sell the backlog of tea to the North American colonies, exempted from paying high import duties and levied only a slight tea tax. The regulations explicitly prohibit the sale of "private tea" in the colonies. Therefore, the East India Company monopolized the transportation and sale of tea in North American colonies, and the price of its imported tea was 50% cheaper than that of "private". The regulation caused great anger among the people of North American colonies, and people drank nine tenths of the smuggled tea consumed. People in New York, Philadelphia and Charleston refused to unload tea. In Boston, a group of young people, led by Hankirk and Samuel Adams, formed the Boston Tea Party. In November 1773, East India Company ships carrying 342 cases of tea sailed into Boston Harbor. On December 16, eight thousand people gathered in Boston to demand that the East India Company tea ships moored there leave the port, but they were refused. That night, the anti-British masses, organized by the Boston Tea Party, disguised as Indians, broke into the ship and poured all 342 boxes of tea (worth 18,000 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 Boston Port, cancel Massachusetts' autonomy, and freely station troops in the colonies. This aroused the strong resistance of the colonial people, and made the contradiction between the British government and the North American colonies sharp, and the open conflict expanded day by day.

The Boston Tea Incident was a political demonstration by residents of Boston, Massachusetts, against the British Parliament.

As John Hancock led the British East India Company, which was operated by the British government, to resist its tea sales, the British Congress enacted a tea tax law in 1773 to help domestic merchants dump into North America and monopolize the tea trade by the British East India Company. On December 16, the same year, a batch of tea was shipped to the port of Boston, where the Son of Liberty - organized by 60 locals - dressed as Indians covertly touched three ships, broke the cargo on the ship and poured 342 boxes of tea into the port, the whole process was fairly peaceful and quiet.

However, this move was considered a provocation to the colonial government, and the British government sent troops to repress it, eventually leading to the first gunfire of the American War of Independence in April 1775.

¡°Why would the people of North America refuse tea from East India, which is half cheaper than their own?¡±

Although the teas dumped by the East India Company are cheaper, but after all foreign, if the North American people drink the teas dumped by the East India Company, the sales of the teas produced by the North American people themselves will be affected, the interests of the North American people will be damaged; in addition, the North American people consider the East India Company to be British-supported, and if they drink the teas of the East India Company, they will continue to be oppressed and exploited by the British colonists. . .

Comments: It was the beginning of the violent action of the North American people against colonial rule