The Boston tea pour was a landmark event in the American Revolutionary War, the beginning of the Rebellion of the North American Colonies against the British. However, the historical truth is always hidden in a fog, the British did not actually increase the tea tax, but reduced taxes, in order to reduce the sales price of British tea in North America, so why should the colonial people oppose it?
The reason is also simple, because it harms the interests of tea smugglers. Britain only allowed East India companies to sell tea in North America at a much more expensive price than in the European market. The Dutch found a business opportunity to smuggle tea to the North American colonies at a much cheaper price than the official one. The people of the colonies are not fools, why don't they put cheap tea leaves?
The East India Company's tea could not be sold, first asked the colonial authorities to crack down on smuggling, and then found that this smuggling was universal, and could not be curbed at all, so it had to retreat to the second place, simply lobbying the British government to reduce the tea tax, so that the official tea was cheaper than smuggled tea, and it was better to sell it cheaply than no business, so that the smuggling chain could also be broken.
The British thought well, but the colonial people did not do it, and under the strong encouragement of the tea smugglers, the idea of independence became stronger and stronger. But this alone was not enough, and the tea smugglers were not strong enough to sway the parliaments of the colonies.
Where can I see this? Washington, Jefferson, the founding fathers of American independence, and most of the members of the Continental Congress had little to do with tea smugglers, let alone benefit from the tea smuggling chain, but had a deeper relationship with Britain.
Because the British prevented them from gaining a greater benefit – expanding to the west. The thirteen north American colonies were located east of the Alabachian Mountains, and the land west of the mountains was very vast, and after the colonies were developed to a certain extent, they gradually set their sights on the west, intending to acquire more land, and it was the British who hindered them.
The main reason why britain did not allow the development of the west was the fear of financial speculation to prevent someone from speculating and causing financial turmoil. In 1720, a South China Sea company appeared in Britain, this "South Sea" is a guide to the Americas, the company claimed that the South China Sea has countless wealth, will get hundreds of times the return.
As a result, the British frantically robbed the shares of the South Sea Company, and after only half a year of issuance, they rose 8 times, and then rose more and more outrageously, and the stock price soared to 30 times. In the autumn of that year, the British finally found out that the South Sea Company was bragging, the bubble was suddenly punctured, the stock price fell to the floor, tens of millions of people went bankrupt or destitute, and even Newton lost twenty thousand pounds, making him a laughing stock.
In order to prevent similar incidents, the British government enacted the Bubble Act in 1722, which strictly censored the company and did not allow the development of new lands, naturally including the western part of the North American colonies, which conflicted with the colonial demands.
As time went on, there was less and less developable land in the colonies, the population was increasing, and the leading figures, including Washington, wanted to break through the bubble law and expand to the west, but the British government never let go.
Therefore, the tea problem is only a fuse, igniting the independence aspirations of the colonial people, and it is in line with the need to expand westward, and since the British do not agree, then we should not be British, let's do it ourselves. In this way, the nascent United States is somewhat similar to Russia, and the desire for land has created this country.