Villarreal 1 Luis Villarreal Mr. Hartshorn English III CP 28 March 2014 The Boston Tea Party There were many events that led the United States to gain its independence. One of those events was the Boston Tea Party. That event led to the American Revolution and eventually for the United States to officially gain its independence from Britain. All it took was for a group of colonist who decided to stand up for what they thought was right. That led to a radical event, a port filled with tea. It all began in 1766 when the Townshend Act came in play. That allowed the Parliament to tax colonies on tea, glass, paint, oil, led, paper, and many more items. The purpose of the Act was to raise 40,000 euros a year for the administration of the colonies. Not only that, but the Parliament also wanted to show the colonist that they also still had the power to tax them. The majority of the time, the tax was ignored only because colonist would get their tea from Dutch smugglers. Early 1773, the Tea aAct came in. This was the final spark for the colonies to rebel although it didn’t imply any new tax on any product. The intent of this act was to bump up the income of the East India Company. The reason for that was because at this time the East India Company was financially unstable, and was at risk of bankruptcy. Villarreal 2 They had eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. Because of the new acts the tea was able to be shipped directly to the colonies instead of England and then to the colonies. In addition, the tea would also be able to be sold at bargain price. Although the Tea Act didn’t imply any new taxes, the colonist had a stronger reaction to it. Colonist took this act as a bribery to get them to pay tax. Even with tax included, th... ... middle of paper ... ...author of this book provided the events in chronological order, from when the high tax started to when the Boston Tea Party took place. It also stated how the Indians wore disguises when the event took place. This book stated information for someone who was researching or looking for info based on this event. This article stated many details about the event. 5. Morris, Richard B., and Leonard Everett Fisher. "The Boston Tea Party." The American Revolution. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1985. N. pag. Print. The author used a format of an encyclopedia. It was kind of like a dictionary. You look for what you were looking for and then you find it. This is for someone who is looking for research and wanting to learn about this event. This part of the book provided primary information on the event. It helps you get a better understanding of why it happened.
Many people believe that the Boston Tea Party arose just because of the Tea Act that came into play in 1773, but in-fact, this major statement arose from two issues surrounding the British Empire in 1765. The first of the issues was that the British East India Company was at risk of going under and the Parliament was finding ways to bring it back. The second issue was that there was a continuing dispute about the extent of the Parliament’s authority. Many colonists believe that the Parliament went overboard with their power and the people were concerned about the future. Attempting to resolve these two major issues, the North Ministry only worsened the problem and produced a showdown that would eventually result in revolution.
Many people know about the Revolutionary war and how the colonists seized their independence from the British. What most do not understand is that there was a series of events that steared the colonists onto the road to independence. They began to think for themselves and started to challenge authority. Coming to the New World, the colonists reached for power and financial opportunity when challenging authority in these three examples: the Witchcraft Trials, Bacon’s Rebellion, and the Boston Tea Party.
In 1773, the Tea Act placed taxes on tea, threatening the power of the colonies. The colonies, however, fought back by pouring expensive tea into the Boston harbor in an event now known as the Boston Tea Party. The enraged Parliament quickly passed the Intolerable Acts, shutting down the port of Boston and taking control over the colonies.
The British were facing economic difficulties after the French and Indian war; therefore, they passed taxes on the colonies to help repay the debt. Initially, the British introduced the Sugar Act in 1764. The colonists did not approve of the British taking control over them. The colonists opposed the Sugar Act because they had to pay three cent tax on sugar. In addition, the Sugar Act increased the taxes on coffee, indigo, and wine. This act was the start of colonist frustration. Subsequently came the Stamp Act the following year in 1765. The Stamp Act was the mind changer for many colonists known as the Patriots. The Patriots started forming as a result of England enforcing acts. The patriots believed the colonies should go to war and separate
The Sons of Liberty answered the call. In an act of defiance, “a few dozen of the Sons of Liberty, opposing new British laws in the colonies, systematically dumped three shiploads of tea into Boston harbor. They acted to prevent the royal authorities from collecting taxes on that import” (Bell). This left Parliament infuriated. They did what they only knew how to do and put a tighter squeeze on the colonists.
George Hewes’ account of the Boston Tea party is considered a firsthand account of a historically significant event. The Boston Tea party took place the night of December 16, 1773 on three ships anchored in Boston Harbor. Hewes recounts the events leading up to the Boston Tea Party, the actual attack on the ships and its aftermath. He provides descriptive narration thus contributing to the historical context surround the Tea party. This event and many others leading up to it, provide a colorful backdrop on the eve of the American Revolution.
...itish government. In Boston, the site of a bloody confrontation between British redcoats and Americans citizens less than 10 years before, emotions ran high. Boston was a center of agitation and finally on the night of December 16,1773, the course of world history was changed. A revolutionary event was on the horizon. As once patriot mournfully observed, “Our cause is righteous and I have no doubt of final success. But I see our generation, and perhaps out whole land, drown in blood.” (Liberty, 2) The rest is history.
Britain decided to pull back most taxes except for the tea tax. Tea was important to the colonists
The imperial tactics of the British Empire were exercised on the colonists through heavy taxes trade restrictions because of their mercantilist economy. The Stamp Act taxed the colonists directly on paper goods ranging from legal documents to newspapers. Colonists were perturbed because they did not receive representation in Parliament to prevent these acts from being passed or to decide where the tax money was spent. The colonists did not support taxation without representation. The Tea Act was also passed by Parliament to help lower the surplus of tea that was created by the financially troubled British East India Company. The colonists responded to this act by executing the Boston Tea Party which tossed all of the tea that was imported into the port of Boston. This precipitated the Boston Port Act which did not permit the colonists to import goods through this port. The colonists protested and refused all of these acts which helped stir the feelings of rebellion among the colonists. The British Mercantilist economy prevented the colonists from coin...
The Boston tea party was a brief incident among many, composing, economic, and political crisis that ultimately caused a revolution. These events consisted of The French and Indian war, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Revenue Act, the Tea Act, and of course the Boston Tea Party. The incident caused by the colonies infuriated the British government therefore as punishment parliament responded to the abuse with the Coercive Acts of 1774 . When the thirteen colonies once again decided to resist the British troops revolution spread. “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” This act later on lead to the American Revolutionary War, were years later independence was
Thomas, Peter D. G. Tea Party of Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution 1773-1776. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
At the beginning of the war, everything was in array and no one could agree on anything, disorganization and uncertainty overwhelmed everyone. Organizations that were meant to be unifying factors for the colonists, like the Continental Congress, were little more than debating clubs that had to work for weeks before they could come to a decision. As time went on and the Tea Act was put into place the rage of the people made them grow closer. By the eve of the American Revolution, Parliament’s aggression towards the colonists had drawn a distinction between the colonist’s political, economic, and social ideas and those of the British. Colonists had embraced a new identity that helped fuel their resistance against Britain (American Identity and
During the early development stages of our country, there came a time when the overpowering mother country of Britain imposed a new system of taxation to control the colonies and the colonists. The Sugar Act of 1764 was the first step in bringing the new taxation system into affect. The Sugar Act, which replaced the Molasses Act of 1733, was designed to raise income without regulating the trading system that the colonies had established. Soon, Britain began to establish methods of taxes without any method of representation of the colonies and this angered the colonists. The power of Parliament to tax the colonies for the purpose of trade regulation had always been ac...
The tea act also gave them and exemption on the export tax and a refund or " drawback" . The low tax game the east India company the opportunity to undercut many things even tea that was smuggled into America but the Dutch traders. Many people saw this as a another example of Taxation tyranny. When the 3 ships I mentioned earlier arrived in the Boston harbor the colonists demanded that the tea that was cargo on the ships be returned back to England immediately. Then that's when the governor of Massachusetts got involved. The royal governor Hutchinson chose to uphold the law and maintained that the 3 ships should be able to continue depositing their cargo and and all appropriate duties should continue to be honored. When governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to return the tea , that's when Samuel Adams took action. He got around 60 members from the sons of liberty which is his underground resistance group , and then that's when he created the " Tea Party" . The group of men were heavily influenced by the Bostonians. Samuel Adams and his men dressed in donned blankets ,face paint , and Indian head dresses , they marched to griffin warfs and got onto all 3 of the ships that was when they emptied all of the team upon the boats into the Harbor . The amount of tea that Samuel Adams and the sons of liberty dumped into the harbor equated to $18,000. The tea that was sent to the colonies was meant to only be sold on the east India company boats and only through the east India company. This was for them to bypass the independent colonies shippers and merchants. That was so that the company could then sell the tea at lower costs in both America and
Many sections of the book were unnecessary and useless for my certain task. Most of the book was also written in a story format and was not cold hard facts. However Chapter 5 gave an in-depth description of the Boston Tea Party and also the effects it had on the colonist. It also stated what the colonies did about this and how they went about rectifying it.