The Cause of the American Revolution - Why Tea, Taxes, and Tyranny Lit the Fuse of Rebellion (1776 The British Are Coming) #882571

In 1773, a rather strange event took place in the American colonies: men dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded ships in Boston Harbor and threw hundreds of chests of tea overboard in the frigid December waters.
It’s the sort of tale we’re taught in kindergarten, with a tone of inevitability; as if revolution were an inevitable force, a tide that would eventually lift too many boats to hold back.
But if you look closer, the fuse that lit the American Revolution wasn’t inevitable at all. It was absurd. It was small things—insignificant taxes on everyday items, the whiff of unfairness, a clumsy show of imperial strength—that ignited an empire’s collapse.
History likes to imagine revolution as a grand crescendo of principles: liberty, democracy, self-rule. But the real story of America’s break with Britain is a little more complicated, a little more human.