Boston Tea Party Do you really know what had happened during the Boston Tea Party? Boston Tea Party is an important event of the America’s history. In 1773, the United States did not exist yet. Britain was in control of the thirteen colonies which it is the United States later on. People had come to the colonies for a new life, but instead they were stuck in the British rule. People were getting tired of the rule, and they were starting to rebel. Boston Tea Party was one of the events of the…
The city of Boston played a crucial part in the history of the freedom and the coming of independence in the United States. Today, visitors can go to Boston and catch a glimpse of the historical events that took place primarily in the eighteenth century. In fact, the city of Boston, through the National Park Service, offers several tours for visitors including the tour of the Freedom Trail as well as the Black Heritage Trail tour in order to provide several unique perspectives of the freedom…
beginning. And although its impossible to pinpoint the single event that let to The American Revolution, there are many that stand out as major contributors to the start of this war. Colonial legislatures, The French and Indian war, The Boston Massacre, The Tea Act, and The Boston Tea Party were just some of the major factors and causes of The American Revolution. The distance between Britain and North America created the need for a localized…
Crown, and remain loyal to them to this day. I’m 22 years old. Turned out my husband was an agent for the British crown, whose name was Thomas Edward, age 26, and insisted we move to North America in hopes for “A better, brighter future.” We began in Boston. We moved here in early 1773. We owned a small farm, and Thomas did odd work in the beginning. It wasn’t until later that he told me his job. We had only one child in the beginning, Bertha Edward, who turned 5 years old, when we arrived to…
Before the war in what the Patriots call the Boston Massacre the British were blamed for shooting the “innocent” colonists. These Redcoats were frightened by the colonists throwing bricks at them and finally they didn’t know what to do, so they reached their “breaking point”. When the our English Service…
goods. It was a day that no one thought violence would erupt, but it did. The Boston Massacre happened because colonists were still mad annoyed by the Quartering Act resulting to fistfights and name-calling in streets. Then, on one March 5th, soldiers fired at angry colonists and killed 5 people all because of the Quartering Act. In addition, who can forget the Tea Act? As a result of the Tea Act Patriots organized the Boston Tea Party. In short, Parliaments acts are the reason for protests,…
To Whom it May Concern at the Boston Gazette: The colonists are to blame for the Boston Massacre, because they have provoked the British to open fire by forming a mob, through taunts, and by the uncertainty of who was saying fire. First, the colonists have attempted to portray an act of violence without any provocation, which got matters complicated. According to the report of Captain Preston, the colonist “[assembled together] to attack the troops, and [they rang] the bells…as the signal…
not the people you want to chose. Well first of all they cause a lot of tension between us, such as The Proclamation of 1763 and how those dumb rules were cast upon us, that wasn’t a very fun time and don’t even get me started with The Boston Massacre and The Boston Tea Party those were horrible acts played on us, that was the moment where we couldn’t tolerate them any longer. When the Proclamation of 1763 was issued that really made us angry because of all the unnecessary enforcements put…
men dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped a lot of tea from East India, 342 chests of it to be exact. • The parliament decided to chastise the colonists, pacifying the residents of Boston and Massachusetts. • The Parliament decides to agree on a set of acts that changed Boston’s laws. They ended up closing the port of Boston on June 1, 1774 • Two additional Intolerable acts are passed, and The Massachusetts act, alongside the Admission of Justice act take place May of 1774. The Americans called…
The Source starts with a general summary of the context of the Boston Tea party. It stated why the American Colonist did what they did. The source tells what significance the Boston Tea Party had on the American Colonist view on independence. The Article then goes on to tell why the Boston Tea Party took place. How Britain enforced different taxes to try and alleviate the debt that had previously been created. They explain how some of the taxes work, such as the Stamp Act which placed a tax on…