The Beginning of the American Revolution: Townshend acts and the Boston Tea Party.

     Before the war, British Parliament had placed acts on America. These acts basically taxed for all goods imported to America from Britain. After a few years, Britain removed all Townshend acts except for the one on tea. To hurt British tea companies, merchants would smuggle tea into America from the Netherlands. This did in fact hurt tea companies drastically. A little while later a man named Sam Prescott led a group of rebels, dressed up as Mohawk Indians, on to a British tea ship. Once aboard, the group started to throw crates of tea overboard. This infuriated Great Britain. They placed the Intolerable acts upon America; these acts closed the Boston Harbor until America paid for the damage and learned to respect Great Britain. A convention of delegates of colonists formed to resist the acts. This group was later known as the Continental Congress.