Throughout the course of history there have been many events leading up to the independence of America. One of the most important and influential events was the Boston Tea Party. Leading to this, angry colonists boarded a ship filled with many chests of tea and threw them overboard. The Boston Tea Party marked the first act of open resistance to British rule (Britannica p1). The Boston Tea Party alone was not the main event that …showed first 75 words of 813 total…

…showed last 75 words of 813 total…additional quarters for the British troops. The fifth act was not an act that was made to punish the colonies. It was an act that extended the boundaries of the provinces of Quebec to the Ohio River" (Boston 2). The Boston Tea Party was an important act made by the revolutionists to promote our independence. The act was one of the very influential proceedings the directly led to the Revolutionary War and soon afterwards our independence. 3