What was the Boston Tea Party ?

When a bunch of Americans dumped tea into the ocean

Explanation:

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The Boston Tea Party was a protest that happened on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation”, dumped 342 crates of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

in mcculloch v. maryland (1819) the supreme court ruled that congress had implied powers under the necessary and proper clause of article i, section 8 of the constitution to create the second bank of the united states and that the state of maryland lacked the power to tax the bank.

gibbons v. ogden, (1824), was a landmark decision in which the supreme court of the united states held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to congress by the commerce clause of the united states constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.