Influence Of The Boston Tea Party

On December 16th of 1773, the Boston Tea Party, a political protest organized and executed by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts would impact not only the relations of the colonists and the British in the 18th century, but also how America would become how it is today: a global power of its own. After the end of salutary neglect and the implementation of taxes designed to relieve war debts, the citizens of the colonies felt cheated due to the lack of representation in Parliament from people who actually live in the colonies. In their opinion, they were British citizens as well and deserved the same rights given to those back in the mother country and to not have “virtual representation” where members of Parliament were chosen to …show more content…
After the whole ordeal of freeing themselves from the monarchy, the idea of breaking away from a government that was abusing its power and only making worse the lives of its citizens spread to other countries and continents. It was not really a trade of ideas, but the idea of the revolution did get passed on and those two occurrences would not be the last time a revolution occurred in history, but the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution derived from the idea that the colonists were also able to break away from their mother country, Great Britain. Prior to the Boston Tea Party, the exchange of feelings between colonists and Indians was a result of the very costly French and Indian War, or the Seven Years War which drove a very deep wedge between the likes of them. Another exchange taking place in this time period was that between Great Britain and the colonies, the colonists crowing staple products Britain wanted such as tobacco, unprocessed sugar, molasses, and rum while the mother country provided clothes, items for merchants, sugar, and most importantly, tea. The British parliament passed the Tea Act on May 10, 1773, taxing all tea that was shipped into the colonies and charging an import duty that was due in 20 days as well, infuriating the colonists to their breaking …show more content…
It caused the social statuses to divide between the colonists who wanted freedom from the mother country and the loyalists. Politically, it created an entirely new system of government for the colonists, causing them to break away from a monarchy and ultimately, it affected the culture by creating an “American fire” in people 's blood which will last to the present day. It caused a permanent alteration in the course of history, leading to the American Revolution, which, when won, would lead to the eventual creation of the entire United States of America, one of the biggest global players