Boston Tea Party A Revolutionary Experience Analysis

The website I chose for this assignment is, http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/boston-tea-party-facts (The title of the website is Boston Tea Party, A Revolutionary Experience). It had tons of information about my topic and it had questions for me to click on and the website answered them so it was very useful and helpful. The picture at the top of the site automatically caught my eye. Also, every question had a full, detailed answer which benefited me a lot.

This site is related to our current unit because the Boston Tea Party was an act of rebellion to the taxation acts of the British. The British, after many other acts, created the Tea Act. This act said that the colonies could only get their tea from British ports, which that was for a

bargaining price. Although, the British were still taxing for the tea. The colonists, felt as if they were being taxed without representation and they did not want to stand for that. The whole Boston Tea Party was the first act of defiance from the Americans. This would eventually lead up to the American Revolution where America would gain independence from the Britain rule.

Something I found interesting while reading this excerpt was that the ships that the colonists dumped the tea from were not British ships, where in fact they were American ships.

A popular misconception about the Boston Tea Party was that American colonists climbed aboard onto several British ships and then got rid of over 40 tons of tea in the sea below. The tea, however, was brought over from London to Boston and was owned by the British East India Company. The ships themselves, were built in America and America owned ships (the names of the ships were “Eleanor”, “Beaver”, and “Dartmouth”).

Another thing I found fascinating was that some of the colonists disguised themselves as Indians in order to protect themselves from severe punishment. I knew that they dressed like Indians, but I never really knew why. Other colonists dressed like this because they knew that people would recognize them to be non-Indians and that they would see who they were really were, true Americans. The colonists wanted to show that they wanted to do their own thing and that they would no longer stand being under British rule, or being considered British

subjects.
Lastly, something I enjoyed learning about in this excerpt was that there was about £9,659 worth of damage in the end of the Boston Tea Party (today it would be worth about $1,700,000). Over 92,000 pounds of tea were destroyed, which was about 340 chests. The obliteration of this much tea costed a huge blow to British’s economy. The British had to shut down the Boston Harbor until all of the costs were paid off. No other damage was done besides the tea, not to the ships, or anything else.

Samuel Adams was the most interesting person I read about on my website.

Quite honestly, I didn’t even know he had a place in the Boston Tea Party. He was, in fact, the leader of the Sons of Liberty (who organized this first act of defiance by the American colonists). Adams was actually known for starting protests against the acts that the British government implemented. He was the one who negotiated with ship owners and custom officials for the port of Boston. Overall, Samuel Adams was a large reason why the Boston Tea Party commenced and other protests against taxation without representation.

The most important thing I learned from my website was that the Boston Tea Party was the spark of the beginning of the American Revolution. This act of rebellion caused more Americans to open their eyes and discover that they wanted to be independent from the British rule. If this protest didn’t happen, it would have probably delayed America’s independence. Until this act, Americans kind of just took the laws of the British government. Of course they complained but they didn’t really act upon their complaints until this upheaval. The Boston Tea Party was the first act of rebellion by the American colonists, and this act of defiance would eventually lead to independence as an American

nation.