USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation, ” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

Detailed explanation-2: -15 March – first performance of Oliver Goldsmith’s play She Stoops to Conquer at the Covent Garden Theatre in London. 27 April – Parliament passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade. 10 May – Tea Act comes into force.