Boston Tea Party

company in 1773? Pg. 65 The Parliament passed the Tea Act of 1773 in order to help the East India company by refunded four-fifths of the taxes the company had to pay to ship tea to the colonies. What did the Coercive Acts intended to do? Pg. 67 The Coercive Acts were intended to punish Massachusetts and end colonial challenges to British authority.…

actions that they would not usually display. Two examples of individuals following a higher moral law are Antigone, the main character of the age-old Greek play Antigone by Sophocles, and Samuel Adams, an American freedom fighter who led the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Both of these individuals committed civil disobedience, which is a peaceful yet meaningful nonviolent form of resistance committed by breaking specific laws set by a government or other group. Though both committed civil…

American tea trade. Tea would arrive in the company’s ships and be sold by their merchants. Colonists who bought smuggled tea would have to pay a tax now. Colonists and merchants were enraged by this. Intolerable Acts After the Boston Tea Party which enraged Britain. The Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts in 1774. These were series of laws which punished the Massachusetts colony and be a warning to others. One act closed the port of Boston until the colonists payed for the destroyed…

were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor. The colonists had thrown the cheap tea into the sea! For North, the colonists’ actions, instead of being thankful. They have gone too far. The Intolerable Acts were designed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.The first law closed Boston Harbor to all shipping until the ruined tea was paid for. The second law placed the government of Massachusetts firmly under…

HIGH TEA IN BOSTON HARBOUR Band of “Mohawk Indians” Dump 342 Chests of Darjeeling off Griffin’s Wharf On December 16, 1773, The Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded three merchant ships carrying Darjeeling tea and dumped 343 chests into Boston Harbour. It is reported that nothing was stolen or looted and there was no damage to the ships or crew. This protest is a result of 13 years of ever increasing British oppression through taxation. Hardliners in the British government used…

killed by British soldiers. The British had done it, they had created the Boston Massacre. The increase on taxes and the Quartering Act put in place by the British, made the colonists outraged and that led them to protest against Great Britain. A major action that the colonists took was the Boston Tea Party, this was when the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Indians and went on multiple ships to dump out all the tea to protest the taxes. The colonists also took the action of putting tar…

Because of the Boston Tea Party, which was where the British dumped out tea as a way of protesting in Boston, the British government became furious at the colonists. The colonial leaders wanted to defend their self government and liberty. The British government launched the Intolerable Acts, punishment laws passed in 1774. These acts were meant to punish the colonists for their defiance and throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. Some of the intolerable acts include Boston Port Act (An…

helped grow and inspire the sense of resistance that was already out there. “As the political controversies surrounding the Sugar, Stamp and Townshend acts fluctuated in the late 1760s, the presence of large contingents of British troops in NY and Boston became a constant source of irritation” (Ghere and Spreeman 10). The stamp, sugar and Townshend acts all created by the government created a shift in the way people viewed…

the Ohio river as a result of the Quebec Act of 1774.The Quebec Act was a part of The Coercive Acts (or Intolerable Acts), which were a response to The Boston Tea Party. Great Britain wanted to retaliate against American colonists in Massachusetts because England had unfairly taxed tea, and the colonists were upset and dumped the tea into the Boston harbor. Great Britain sought to punish Massachusetts, so it would serve as a warning to the other twelve colonies to not cause chaos. The Quebec Act…

significance to the King of England revolting against the colonists. The French and Indian War, The Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Tea Act, Stamp Act,Townshend Act, Boston Massacre,Boston Tea Party and Intolerable Acts. The Boston Massacre is the most important to the cause of The American Revolution. To began at my first importance would be the Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre was the most important and significant to the King of England, King George. It started in 1770 the main…