Answer:
True. It self-explanatory, BOSTON TEA PARTY.
Why did the colonists dump the tea into the Boston Harbor?
It’s complicated, but basically the British government gave a tax concession to the British East India (BEI) company, letting it sell tea to the American colonies at a reduced price. The same concession was not given to American tea importers, who now couldn’t compete with the BEI’s prices.
That was grating enough (imagine if the government passed a law that put you out of business in order to give a big ‘foreign’ company an advantage), but the one tax that remained on BEI tea was the Townsend tax. The purpose of this tax was to pay the salaries of British officials in the colonies. Previously these officials had been paid directly by the colonies, but the British government wanted to make those officials dependent on them for their wages to insure their loyalty.
And all of this was done without the colonists having any say in the matter. Thus ‘no taxation without representation.’ They were furious that the British government was passing such laws on them without giving them any say in the matter.