The Boston Tea Party "Boston Harbor, a teapot tonight. The Mohawks come" (The Coming of the Revolution). On Thursday, December 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place. This act was one of the causes for the start of the Revolutionary War. The Boston Tea Party came about because the Patriots of the Colonies would not stand for the unjust taxation's brought upon them by the British. The Patriots decided to take action. The American Revolution was brought upon by many unjust taxation's handed upon the colonists by the British. One of them being the Quartering Act. The Quartering Act required each colony to pay for part of the expenses