BTW there's an Indian connection there too (I assume you're talking about the Boston Tea Party).
The cause of that episode was the British eliminating the tax on tea and at the same time giving the East India Company a tea monopoly in the North American colonies.
When I was in school in Boston the official line was that the tea party demonstrators were smugglers upset at the monopoly and reduction in tax (the New England coastline is well structured for and remains a big smuggling area, especially heroin and human trafficking).
I have no idea if the story is still told that way in the Boston schools. I was also taught that the clever colonists used to hide behind the bushes and pop out to shoot the stupid British marching down the streets in their bright red uniforms. I know that by 1970 that narrative had been replaced as the guerrilla warfare in Viet Nam was now being presented as "unfair"
None of which is a criticism of the USA or UK, merely a comment on how our narratives "evolve".