1. Colonists weren’t protesting a higher tax on tea.
2. The attacked ships were American and the tea wasn’t the King’s.
3. The tea was Chinese, not Indian, and lots of it was green.
4. The Tea Party, itself, didn’t incite revolution.
5. Tea Party protestors dressed as ‘Indians,’ but not convincingly.
6. No one called it the ‘Boston Tea Party.’
7. After Boston, there were other ‘tea parties.’