"The colonial people in North America are extremely dissatisfied with the cruel and overbearing rule of the British rulers", which seems to be misleading. There is no such thing as "cruel rule". Hegemony exists, but colonial rule is unilateral hegemonic rule, and there is nothing to say. Even today, 200 years later, even under the democratic politics of the United States, there are occasional "overbearing" practices, not to mention other countries.

The Boston Tea Party is also known as the Boston Tea Party. It was an event in 1773 that the people of Boston, a North American colony, opposed the monopoly of tea trade by the British East India Company.

This incident is the most direct cause of American independence.

1773, in order to dump the tea accumulated by the East India Company, the British government passed the Relief Regulations of the East India Company. This provision gives the East India Company the patent right to sell the overstocked tea in the North American colonies, exempting it from paying high import taxes and imposing only a slight tea tax. The regulations explicitly prohibit the sale of "private tea" in the colonies. As a result, the East India Company monopolized the distribution of tea in the North American colonies, and the price of imported tea was 50% cheaper than that of "private tea". This regulation caused great anger among the colonial people in North America, who consumed nine-tenths of smuggled tea. People in new york, Philadelphia and Charleston refused to unload tea.

In Boston, a group of young people led by Hancock and samuel adams set up the Boston Tea Party.

1773165438+1October, the ship of East India Company loaded with 342 boxes of tea entered Boston Port. 1216,8000 people gathered in Boston, demanding that the East India Company tea boat parked there leave the port, but it was rejected. That night, organized by the Boston Tea Party, anti-British people disguised as Indians broke into the ship and dumped all 342 boxes of tea (worth 18000) from three ships of the East India Company into the sea. The British government adopted a high-handed policy and issued a series of decrees in 1774, blocking the port of Boston, canceling the autonomy of Massachusetts and freely stationing troops in the colonies. This aroused the strong resistance of the colonial people, 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 Boston residents in Massachusetts against the British Parliament. This is the beginning of the violent action of the North American people against colonial rule, and it is also one of the key points of the American revolution.

As john hancock led a boycott of the British East India Company run by the British government, its tea sales plummeted. 1773, the British Parliament promulgated the tea tax law to help domestic businessmen dump to North America, and the British East India Company monopolized the tea trade.

In the same year, 12, 16, a batch of tea was transported to Boston port. Sons of liberty, organized by 60 local people, sneaked into three ships disguised as Indians, smashed the cargo on board and dumped 342 boxes of tea into the port. The whole process was quite peaceful and quiet.

However, this move is seen as a provocation against the colonial government. The British government sent troops to suppress it, which eventually led to the first shot of the American War of Independence in April 1775.

1773, Boston tea party, anti-dumping. 1774, representatives from 13 states gathered in Philadelphia to hold the so-called first continental congress, hoping to find a reasonable way to solve the problem peacefully with Britain. But the British king insisted that the colony must unconditionally submit to the British king and accept punishment.

1775, the war was ignited in Lexington, Massachusetts; 1776 in may, the second continental congress was held in Philadelphia, which strengthened the determination of war and independence, issued the famous declaration of independence, and put forward sufficient reasons for fighting this war.

1777 10, Saratoga stepped up its efforts to reverse the unfavorable situation in the early days of the War of Independence. This service has greatly increased the confidence of the American people and won international support.

1778 In February, France signed a military alliance treaty with the United States, and France officially recognized the United States. France, Spain and the Netherlands went to war.

178 1 year, the battle of York city won a decisive victory. After the Battle of Yorktown, except for several battles at sea and sporadic battles on land, the war on the North American continent has basically stopped.

1782165438+1On October 30th, Britain and the United States signed the draft Paris Peace Treaty.

1On September 3, 783, Britain officially recognized the independence of the United States.