https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
From your own link: "Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen" (my emphasis)
The article then goes on to say that after the Tea Party, the colonists petitioned the monarch... not exactly something you'd to do an external force.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
From your own link: "Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen" (my emphasis)
The article then goes on to say that after the Tea Party, the colonists petitioned the monarch... not exactly something you'd to do an external force.