After 1773 12 16, the Boston Tea Party which triggered the North American War of Independence broke out. To understand the ins and outs of the Boston Tea Party, we must first talk about the war between Britain and France for colonial hegemony. For a long time, Britain and France, as two great powers in Europe, have been fighting for hegemony in Europe and even the world. 1763, Britain finally won the victory over France in the Seven-Year War, and France was forced to cede the whole of Canada to Britain and quit the whole of India, leaving only five towns. Since then, Britain has become a colonial hegemon and gradually moved towards an empire. However, Britain transferred the war expenses of this war to the North American colonies, which aroused the dissatisfaction of local residents and triggered the Boston Tea Party. 1773, the British government passed the relief regulations for the East India Company to dump the tea accumulated by the East India Company. It granted the East India Company the patent right to dump accumulated tea in the North American colonies, exempted from paying high import taxes, and only levied a slight tea tax. The regulations explicitly prohibited the colonists from selling private tea, so the East India Company monopolized the tea distribution in the North American colonies, and the price of imported tea was even more than half cheaper than private tea. This regulation caused great anger among North American colonists. You know, people who were colonized in North America consumed nine-tenths of smuggled tea at that time, so there were quite a few people who bought smuggled tea. Of course, the main reason for the anger of North American colonists is not the tea tax itself, but what we call dumping today. On June 5438+065438+ 10 of that year, seven large merchant ships sailed for the colony, four of which sailed for Boston, and the other three sailed for new york, Charlie and Philadelphia respectively. Before the ship landed, the comments in the newspaper were full of gunpowder. The importers in new york, Charlie and Philadelphia lost the courage to receive the goods, and tons of tea had to be shipped back to London. The fate of the four tea boats bound for Boston is even worse. On February 1773, Samuel and Adams led 60 sons of liberty to sneak into the merchant ship disguised as Indians and dumped all 342 boxes of tea worth about 15000 into the sea.

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