Dignity, a Majesty, Sublimity in this last Effort of the patriots... so bold, so daring...an Epocha in History. This view is one of a patriot looking at the British as tyrannical and the colonists as an oppressed people rising up against the crown. This view is reflected by our history books.Another view of the tea party was one a little less patriotic and more economic minded than the previous. It is said that the British East India Company had over 17 million pounds of poor grade tea sitting around in London warehouses. Parliament then granted a legal monopoly to the nearly bankrupt East India Company to save their business. Parliament allowed the company to export its goods to their own agents in America with out paying English tax. The company could now under cut the American tea merchants, even those using smugglers. The English supposed that because the tea was cheaper, they would not mind the slight tax they would have to pay. The colonist did mind. They thought that buying this tea and paying this tax would prove that the British still had control over them and they were giving in to government imposed monopolies. Samuel Adams and John Hancock, one of the richest men in America who was to be hurt the most by the East India Companys new fortune, organized a group of 150 men who disguised them selves as Mohawk Indians and raided the incoming ships, dumping the cheaper tea into the harbor. All this was done to protect the American businesses interests, not to over throw the government.There is yet another view of what happened that night of December 16, 1773, this view is much less patriotic and seen from a total economic view point. This is never told to grade school students or taught at most schools at all. It is a view the British find more of a liking to. It is said that Samuel Adams was an unemployed radical politician, who was very popular in Boston. It was he who turned the people of Boston against the British. The British ...
