The story behind the Boston Tea Party Ben Labaree

View full lesson: Before the Revolutionary War, American colonists were taxed heavily for importing tea from Britain. The colonists, not fans of taxation without representation, reacted by dumping tea into the Boston Harbor, a night now known as the Boston Tea Party. Ben Labaree gets into the nittygritty of that famous revolutionary act. Lesson by Ben Labaree, animation by Nick FoxGieg Animation.