The events leading to the Boston Tea Party began already ten years before (1763), when the English won the French-and-Indian War. The king of Britain passed taxes on the colonies to make up for the loss of money because of the war. read more
George Hewes was rejected as a soldier and did not fight in the revolutionary war. Thomas Crafts, Jr., however, another participant in the Boston Tea Party, became a member of Major Paddock's famous Paddock's Artillery Company and attained the rank of colonel in the continental army. read more
The Boston Tea Party was the cause of the Revoultionary War, because it sparked rebellion in the colonists and was one of the main reasons for the Continental Congress to gather, which started the Revolutionary War by writing the Declaration of Independence. read more