what date was the boston tea party
Boston Tea Party. An engraving of American colonists dressed as Native Americans throwing 342 trunks of the cargo that was on the British tea ships into Boston Harbour on December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party was a violent protest by American colonists against King George III's rule in America. It happened on December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party was an act of protest against the British for the Tea Act. The Americans had no one to speak for them in the British government.