In 1758, in order to pay for the war and for the upkeep of the British army, the British imposed taxes on the colonists. The Americans were angry that a government so far away, and for which they were not able to vote, was making them pay tax. The taxes were finally cancelled, but when the British Parliament allowed a British company to import tea into America without paying tax, the colonists were so angry that in 1773 they threw the tea from three ships into Boston harbor. This became known as the Boston Tea Party.