Most everyone in America is familiar with the “Boston Tea Party,” which is the name given to the event in which the disguised colonists threw into the water 342 chests of tea, that belonged to the East India Company, and thereby by that revolutionary action placed those American colonists on the distinct pathway to revolution with the British Empire, for they no longer believed that there could be an accommodation between themselves and Great Britain that would fairly resolve their differences.
It is important to note that the East India Company was a powerful force, backed by the military might of the British Empire, that if not put into check by American colonists, could easily change the dynamics of the export and import trade of those colonists to the detriment of the colonists, by the East India Company becoming the favorite vehicle for trade to be conducted within America. In other words, the East India Company could legitimately be seen as being deliberately favored by the British Empire at the expense of the colonists, who would lose out through taxation on goods as well as losing out via trade overseas to this favored foreign entity that they had no sovereign control over.
Indeed, the East India Company had already proved through its trade in the East Indies that they would exert themselves in the East Indies in a way and manner, that the Indian subcontinent would be subservient to the British Empire and in particular, would permit the East India Company to profit through the conditions of trade so conducted within that subcontinent. That is to say, the East India Company was basically given free license to do whatever that they needed to do to make profit, which was beneficial for the investors in that Company, but also beneficial for the British Empire through their exploitation of those that were the denizens of the India subcontinent, in which, the population of the India subcontinent was substantially higher than Great Britain, but because the India subcontinent did not have the military might or political power to fight back, they thereby became subservient to the East India Company as well as the British Empire.
The colonists were no fools, and what they did not desire to see happen to them was to be controlled or impacted negatively by the East India Company, through unfair taxation and high tariffs, which would greatly impact their own interests and subvert whatever autonomy the colonists had earned. This is why the colonists made it their point to take a stand, because they feared that if they did not, that they would thereby cede control of their trade and their interests to Great Britain, in which, because they had no voice in Parliament, this would signify that they were at the mercy of the British Empire, and thereby subject to whatever decisions made by that Parliament and its kingdom, favorable or not. So then, the colonists fought back, in the sure knowledge that failure meant their ruin, but success meant they would have freedom and liberty throughout the land.