Boston Tea Party: Colonists dumped the British's tea into the Boston Harbor. The reason being that they were angry at the British government for taxing the colonies. While the colonists were doing this you can see in the picture that they had dressed up as Mohawk Indians.
Copy of lithograph by Sarony &amp; Major, 1846
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