In the American colonies on April 19th, 1775, the American colonists were being ruled over by Great Britain. American colonists were being pushed to their breaking points as British generals were sent to America to try to “maintain order”. The colonists wanted nothing more than to be freed from British rule and rid themselves of the taxes that were placed on their heads. The colonists temporarily stopped these taxes once they dumped the British tea into the Boston harbor on December 16th, 1773. Although most of the tea was easily recovered, the message still stood that the American colonies wanted out of the system. The Boston Tea Party is said to be the first official moment where American colonists felt a true sense of pride in their country; …show more content…
The Townshend Act placed a tax on basically anything that was imported through the American borders and might have been the largest promoter of the American Revolution. The British applied this tax to American colonists as a way of punishing them for what they called “misbehaving” and to quickly gain free revenue. American colonists, of course, did not like this act and a mass spread of dissatisfaction scattered across the colonies. The colonists showed their hatred by boycotting several types of British goods such as: pencils, paper, and, last but certainly not the least, British tea. The colonists showed their new found American patriotism by having protests and rallies outside of public buildings. I would make the argument that the Townshend Act hit the colonies so hard due to the British just releasing them from the Sugar Act one year prior. This Townshend Act seemed to be the last straw for American colonists as this tax seemed to be pure …show more content…
The American colonists had evolved and created new ways of thinking in this brand new world they had just discovered. Although Great Britain only saw the colonists as just a branch of their government across oceans, the colonists had seemed to grow into the mission as more than just an expedition, but as a new nation. A big difference in the cultures of colonists and the British were that the colonists farmed straight resources and then shipped them out to other countries instead of using the materials to craft their own goods. This creates a large cultural difference due to the colonists having farming lifestyle instead of how life was in Great Britain. Theses cultural differences led to the colonists not supporting King George anymore, making him already unpopular before he made any taxation laws
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.
When the Boston Tea Party occurred on the evening of December 16,1773, it was the culmination of many years of bad feeling between the British government and her American colonies. The controversy between the two always seemed to hinge on the taxes, which Great Britain required for the upkeep of the American colonies. Starting in 1765, the Stamp Act was intended by Parliament to provide the funds necessary to keep peace between the American settlers and the Native American population. The Stamp Act was loathed by the American colonists and later repealed by parliament.
The time period around the American Revolution and after saw great changes happening in the world. On ones side of the Earth you have a group of colonies about to engage in a war in order to earn their freedom from Great Britain and create a new nation. A building block of frustration toward the war took place on the night of December 16, 1773, where a group of colonist decided they wanted to get back on Great Britain for the newly imposed tax on tea. Along with this later comes one of the most influential works of literature the Declaration of Independence. On the other side of the world and about 60 years later you had the first print of Hokusai’s The Great Wave. One of the most well-known images that has been printed on anything from shower curtains to cars. An image that can be seen from a different perspective depending on where you come from. In this paper I will explain just how impactful the Boston Tea Party, the Declaration of Independence, and The Great Wave have been on the world.
Because the company appointed only certain American merchants as agents to distribute their tea, other merchants resented not being able to partake in the profits. When the company realized, that the colonists were drinking cheap tea, smuggled tea, the parliament gave them the monopoly to export tea without paying duties. Smugglers feared the loss of the valuable trade of Dutch tea. Popular politicians objected to the Tea Act on principle. They resisted “taxation without representation”—Britain taxing the colonists without giving them representation in government. Then in 1773 the British Parliament passed the Tea Act. This act was designed to help the nearly bankrupt East India Company by eliminating any tax on tea the company exported to America. The company’s tea, although still subject to the Townshend tax, was now cheaper than the smuggled Dutch tea most Americans drank. However, if the colonists bought it, they would be accepting the British tax.
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
Long before the United States of America was even formed, the country was a colony of the British Empire. The British were very controlling and they had a tendency to raise taxes on the colonists living there. The first tax, called The Stamp Act, was forced on the colonists in 1765 by Parliament. This act stated that colonists were required to pay for an official stamp when they bought paper items. The colonists were not in agreement with Parliament and they repealed it soon after because they thought it violated their rights. However, that did not stop Parliament from passing another tax. The Townshend Acts were enacted to force the colonists to pay for glass, paper, tea, lead, and paints. The colonists were not going to take that so they started boycotting against British goods. As a result, British soldiers were sent to Boston to restore order and to ensure that Parliament’s laws were carried out. When they arrived, Bostonians saw them as a threat. They began to shout insults and throw snowballs at the troops. Then a soldier fired into the crowd killing three men and two others. The soldiers were charged for murder but were found innocent. This injustice made the colonists angry with Britain and the next thing they did will be a day remembered in history forever. The Parliament passed another Act called the Tea Act. This allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists. Some merchants and smugglers feared that they would go out of business. Ships arrived from the company to the Boston Harbor. On December 16, 1773 some colonists were disguised as Indians and sneaked onto the ship. They dumped over 340 tea chests into the Boston Harbor. This eve...
When The British took control over the colonies they imposed a lot of taxes on the colonists. One tax was the Tea Act. The Act allowed a kickback of the duties and customs on the exportation of tea to His Majesty’s colonies to go up on the tea to be sold by the British East India Company. When the British did this, the colonists were outraged. One night when they finally had enough of the taxes, the people and the colonists joined up at night at the Boston Harbor. As they wore Indian-style clothing and jewelry they threw three hundred and forty two chests of tea belonging to The British East India C...
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.
Throughout the course of history there have been many events leading up to the independence of America. Some of them were small, but others were much more significant. The Boston Tea Party was one of the more important events. The Boston Tea Party marked the first piece of open resistance to the tight British rule. The Boston Tea Party alone was not the main event that brought America her independence. However, the Boston Tea Party was the larger of many little things that led up to the revolutionary war.
One of the major causes was the Boston Tea Party in 1774.At this location where the December 16, 1773 destruction of the tea occurred. The original location of the Boston Tea Party no longer existed due to extensive landfills that destroyed the location. This was caused by the city of Boston’s rapid growth in the 19th century. In 18th century Boston, Griffin’s Wharf was a bustling center for maritime commerce and shipping. The perfect region of the original Griffin’s Wharf is open to debate, but the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, placed on the Congress Street Bridge, it is near to the approximate area where the Boston Tea Party took place. A historical marker celebrating the Boston Tea Party stands on the corner of Congress and Purchase streets.
The colonist started to boycott the British goods, not buying them, pressuring the American people around them to stop buying the tea. Samuel Adams from Boston Massachusetts, created a group called “The Sons of Liberty”. The men of these groups attacked tax collectors, in some very bad
“Boston had been the ringleader in all the riots, and had at all times shown a desire for seeing the laws of Great Britain attempted in vain in the colony of Massachusetts Bay,” European leader Lord North said as he heard news of what happened at Massachusetts Bay, which later came to be called the Boston Tea Party, an event in which angry colonists threw British tea over the harbor in protest of British rule and their harsh taxes on their goods (Luke 53).
As a result of protest by the British colonies by reducing British imports, the Townshend Acts were repealed by Parliament in 1770, but taxes on tea were kept. However, the result of these acts were boycotts and growing tension in the colonies, which eventually lead to a revolutionary war.
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.
George R. T. Hewes was a British shoemaker who lived in the Boston area during the 18th century. He wrote in a memoir the details of punishment during this time as well as the events leading up to, and during the actual event known as the Boston tea party. After discussing the way that the event went down he then goes on to talk about the people inside of the town that still sold tea products and the things that the colonists would do to them. I believe that his memoir is very important to history. It gives an inside perspective to what is going on within the town of Boston days before the uprising unfolds. The details that George R. T. Hewes shares are first person and allow the reader to get involved in what is happening and how it is progressing.