First of all I would like to say that the Tea Party should be called the New Sons Of Liberty Party, but lets go back to 1765. I will keep this short and sweet.
Early 1765, England is starting to make Americans mad. A group of Massachusetts business owners and concerned citizens, these were normal workers and tradesmen, not wealthy trust fund brats or politicans. They decide to form a political action group to protest high taxes like the Stamp Act and over regulation. They called their orginizaton The Loyal Nine and after a while there were more tha nine so it became known as The Sons of Liberty. This was a secret society, highly influentual and active. By the end of the year they were in every colony. And by the end of 1766 they had removed nearly all opposition from power and controlled all legislature. But England refused to listen to the objections of the people in colonial America. And you can thank them for the revolt and the 1773 Tea Party! History has a way of repeating itself, we shall see.
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