US History

            During the 1760's the American Colonies began to find themselves being taxed by the English on many things they were getting from them for free in the past. The Colonies reactions to these taxes resulted in boycotting and sometimes even violence because of their views of no taxes imposed on colonies without their own consent, given personally, or by their representatives. The Colonies found themselves up against the English Government by opposing them. This opposition was portrayed in many different ways including Boston Tea Party, Colonial Boycotts and the Stamp Act Congress. .
             In 1773, Britain's East India Company was sitting on large stocks of tea that it could not sell in England. It was on the verge of bankruptcy but in an effort to save it the government passed the Tea Act of 1773. This Act gave the company the right to export its merchandise directly to the colonies without paying any of the regular taxes that were imposed on the colonial merchants, who had traditionally served as the middlemen in those transactions. With these privileges, Britain's East India Company could undersell American merchants and monopolize the colonial tea trade. The East India Company's decision to grant franchises to certain American merchants for the sale of their tea created further resentments among those excluded from this lucrative trade. More importantly, the Tea Act revived made the American Colonies unhappy about the issue of taxation without representation. On the night of December 16, 1773 three companies of fifty men each masquerading as Indians, reacted to the Tea Act by passed through a large crowd of spectators, went aboard the three ships, broke open the hundreds of tea chests, and threw them into the Boston harbor. As the amazing news of the Boston "Tea Party" spread, other seaports followed the example and staged similar acts of resistance of their own.
             After the taxation of goods when on for so long the American Colonies started to refuse the English goods by boycotting them.