What 1773 protest against British taxation is recalled in the history celebrated by America250?

The Boston Tea Party was the 1773 protest against British taxation recalled in America250 history.

On December 16, 1773, colonists in Boston boarded ships and threw tea belonging to the British East India Company into Boston Harbor. The protest opposed the Tea Act and the broader principle that Parliament could tax colonists who lacked elected representation there.

The event was organized by resistance activists associated with the Sons of Liberty. Participants attempted to destroy the tea without stealing other cargo or damaging the ships, although the act caused major financial loss.

Britain responded with the Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts by many colonists. Those measures intensified the political crisis and helped lead to the First Continental Congress in 1774 and eventually the Revolutionary War.