toefl Master History Lyrics

M: History can illuminate the value of tea. In the past, quality tea has been considered more valuable than gold. Tea has even been the impetus for war, like the American Revolution.
W: I thought that war happened because Americans didn't want to be ruled by the British. What did it have to do with tea?
M: One of the incidents that touched off the Revolutionary War was a shipment of tea being dumped into the ocean by a group of Americans. Haven't you heard about the Boston Tea Party? It wasn't a party at all. It was one of the first aggressive acts of the revolution.