In 1773 a group of American colonists protested the British tea tax by dumping three shiploads of tea into Boston Harbor, an event that would later be referred to as the Boston Tea Party. Much more recently, a group of disgruntled Americans have formed a band of protests across the country with the same name to emphasize their dismay at rising taxes.
The Boston Tea Party
This tea-destroying event was one of the biggest historical markers of the American Revolution. It was in response to a series of taxes levied on the colonists by the British parliament, beginning in 1764 with the Sugar Act. Colonists argued and protested at town meetings over what they deemed "Taxation Without Representation," a slogan that would serve as a rallying cry for the Revolutionary War. Some colonies stopped importing goods from England in the 1760s to avoid paying the taxes involved. When Britain instituted the Stamp Act in 1765, taxing stamps required on every piece of paper from almanacs to playing cards, the colonists began to organize.
According to the Boston Tea Party Historical Society, on Nov. 29, 1773 a handbill was passed around Boston that read, "Friends! Brethren! Countrymen!--That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the harbor." This incited the town to riot and take out their frustrations with British taxes on the tea on those ships.
There are several different groups that currently refer to themselves as "Tea Parties."
The Tea Party Revolution
The Tea Party Revolution (TPR) is a group of American citizens who claim no affiliation with a political party but wish to "return the government to its roots as a republic as our founding fathers intended." Groups like this have begun gaining more attention in the past several years.
TPR describes its purpose as informing citizens and encouraging them to take part in the legislative process. This is often in the form of "tea parties," a somewhat ambiguous term that loosely refers to a group of political activists concerned with rising taxes. One of the main goals of TPR (and presumably of those who organize under its name) is rectification of the financial relationship between the government and its citizens.
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