Greenwich Tea Burning Monument

Greenwich Tea Burning Monument

As students in United States schools are taught, opposition to the Tea Act passed by the parliament of Great Britain escalated hostilities between Britain and American colonists, a precursor to the Revolutionary War. On December 16, 1773, seven months after royal assent of the act, 16 members of the loosely organized Sons of Liberty, disguised as Native Americans, threw 342 chests of imported tea from a docked ship into Boston Harbor. “No taxati…