Andrew's world West Virginia history

     August 20th, 2022 was the date of the first post I made on this blog. That post was about a story that took place at a local cemetery that I had heard about. I had actually read about that story on another blog about ten years before that http://theresashauntedhistoryofthetri-state.blogspot.com Now, at the time, that was just a random blog I happened to run across, but I ended up meeting Theresa. Life is funny. I was  really excited about that story and with Theresa's permission, I put my own spin on it.      Since then, I've wrote a lot more posts about the history and goings on of West Virginia. Maybe I'm tooting my own horn here, but I think historians like myself are important. Without people researching and writing about our history, people in one hundred years might say "wait, why isnt West Virginia just a part of virginia?". But I'll leave that for you to decide.            

    This is a continuation of the post I made on July 4th, 2023 about the declaration of independence. In this post, I'll discuss the Boston Tea Party. "But Andrew, that has nothing to do with West Virginia" Without this there never would've never even been an America, shut up.       If you ask most people about the Boston tea party, they'll tell you it was the result of Britain raising the tax on tea. Quite the contrary, if anything, Britain was making tea cheaper for the colonists.      See, at the time, tea was a huge deal, it was new, exciting and exotic, and everybody everywhere was drinking it. Most of the tea in the colonies was smuggled in. This really hurt the East India Trading company, which was a big player in Britain's economy. The East India Trading company had a huge surplus of tea rotting in warehouses in London. So, the Parliament of Great Britain passed the tea act of 1773 in May, which gave the East India Trading Company a monopoly on sellin