Which event on December 16, 1773, protested Britain's tea tax in Boston?

The Boston Tea Party was the December 16, 1773, protest against Britain's tea tax in Boston.

That night, colonists boarded ships in Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of East India Company tea into the water. The protest opposed Parliament's taxation policies and the Tea Act, which allowed the company to sell tea directly to the colonies while retaining a tax.

Participants included members of the Sons of Liberty, and many disguised themselves to conceal their identities. The action was not a general rejection of tea; it was a protest over taxation, political representation, and the authority of Parliament.

Britain responded with the Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts by many colonists. Those measures restricted Massachusetts self-government and helped increase cooperation among the colonies before the Revolutionary War.