$1 Million dollars in todays money wasted...the Boston Tea Party - by Keon Henderson

Boston. 1773. American colonists didn’t buy from (boycotted) the British because of the Townshend taxes. Later, they were upset because of taxes on tea."The British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade".

On December 16, 1773, a person named Samuel Adams, a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty, organized a group of men to disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians and took the tea and dumped it into the harbor.  All the tea dumped into the harbor was worth 1 million dollars in today’s money! The Tea Party created more tension with the British.