When the British repealed the Townsend Act they removed all taxes and duties on goods, except for tea. This became the focal point of the colonists anger. The British East India Company had controlled all tea trading between India and the British colonies. As a result of the tea tax, the colonies refused to buy the British tea. So they import tea from Holland. And this affect the the British East India Compan.

The British government needed to stop these. So in May 1773 they made the Tea Act. The Tea Act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists, by passing the colonial wholesale merchants. This allowed the company to sell their tea cheaper than the colonial merchants who were selling import tea from Holland.

The colonist were again angry because they revive the issue of taxation without representation, They didnt wanted to pay the tea and they didnt wanted to be unload but the Governor of Massachusetts said that the tea had to be unloaded and colonist mus pay. :s

On December 16, 1773, a group of men calling themselves the Sons of Liberty went to the Boston Harbor. The men were dressed as Mohawk Indians. They boarded three British ships and dumped forty-five tons of tea into the Boston Harbor.