How many of you reading this drink coffee? 80 percent of Americans drink coffee1. Americans drink coffee a lot of the time without knowing the reasons why they choose it over tea. I correlate drinking coffee with the American Revolution and the Boston Tea Party. I will be discussing the history of coffee culture in America by going over how we starting drinking coffee over tea. I will start by going over the history of the coffee culture in America by discussing the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution. I will also discuss the some myths associated with coffee in America of instance that the colonist didn’t dump full crates of tea into the Boston harbor. First let’s discuss the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution through
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The English had just come out of a long and costly war and needed desperately to recoup their monetary losses. The fastest way was to tax the American colonies. What better item to tax than the one consumed by most of the citizens? The American colonist then carried out the Boston Tea Party in December 16 1773 to show that they weren’t going to put up with taxes levied up them without representation. Americans started to drink more coffee as a protest of the tax on tea and because coffee from Brazil was cheaper. Coffee also played a major role in the American Revolution. Revolutionist met at the Merchant’s Coffee House to begin the American Revolution and here is also where Decleration of Independence read out loud for the first time2. Now that I have told you about how we started to drink coffee let’s talk about some myth’s associated with the Boston Tea Party.
Every time I see a play or a movie about the Boston Tea Party they are always dumping these big crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. The fact was that the tea stored on the ship was in large crates that were unmovable so what the revolutionaries did was broke open the crates and dump the tea into the harbor3. The thing that they also get wrong is that the tea stored were bricks of tea, however the tea stored was individual tea leaves. I hope now you look at depictions of the Boston Tea Party through a new more focused
The English had just come out of a long and costly war and needed desperately to recoup their monetary losses. The fastest way was to tax the American colonies. What better item to tax than the one consumed by most of the citizens? The American colonist then carried out the Boston Tea Party in December 16 1773 to show that they weren’t going to put up with taxes levied up them without representation. Americans started to drink more coffee as a protest of the tax on tea and because coffee from Brazil was cheaper. Coffee also played a major role in the American Revolution. Revolutionist met at the Merchant’s Coffee House to begin the American Revolution and here is also where Decleration of Independence read out loud for the first time2. Now that I have told you about how we started to drink coffee let’s talk about some myth’s associated with the Boston Tea Party.
Every time I see a play or a movie about the Boston Tea Party they are always dumping these big crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. The fact was that the tea stored on the ship was in large crates that were unmovable so what the revolutionaries did was broke open the crates and dump the tea into the harbor3. The thing that they also get wrong is that the tea stored were bricks of tea, however the tea stored was individual tea leaves. I hope now you look at depictions of the Boston Tea Party through a new more focused