Boston Tea Party

1.) Mayflower Compact: • The document was written after the Puritans attempted to flee from England, as they were persecuted for their religious beliefs. • The document was adopted on November 11st, 1620 on the Mayflower ship. • This compact asserted the Puritan Separatists’ creation of a new government when arriving in Plymouth. (Virginia Colony) • The Puritans who fled from England during this period of time denoted themselves as “saints.” 2.) Bacon’s Rebellion: • The rebellion was deeply…

born in Boston Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard in the year of 1740. He was the son of a merchant and maltster. After graduation Sam Adams was unsuccessful at becoming a brewer and a newspaper publisher. He later discovered that politics were his true calling. He began his political career by participating in Boston town affairs. He became well known through his participation in the Massachusetts assembly during the opposition of the Stamp Act. He helped to organize the Boston Sons of…

He had many conflicts with the British law and proved himself to be a true revolutionist. One of his many contributions to the war was his engraving of the Boston Massacre. He created his own propaganda of the event. He made it seem like the colonists were not fighting back against the British, and that the colonists had done nothing to deserve an open fire response from the soldiers. This made the people hate…

occurring between the years of 1763 and 1775. Within these years English colonists were aggravated from the tax and trade laws that were put into place. The series of major conflicts between England and English colonies consist of the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts and everything in between. The English colonists were upset with the way they were being treated along with all of the taxes that came along with acts passed by the British Parliament, which exploded at one moment…

11. Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a “patriot ” mob and British soldiers where several colonists were killed. The sons of liberty blew the event beyond all proportion and all of the colonies were in outrage. 12. Boston Tea Party The purpose of the Boston Tea Party was to protest the British tax on tea and to fight back against British rule in the Colonies. The British closed the port and inflicted even harsher penalties on the Colonies because of the tea party. 13…

with England. Tea Act 1773 The Tea Act’s main purpose was not to raise money from the colonies but to bail out the East India Company, a key part of the British economy. The British government gave the East India rights to be the only company to sell tea. They could raise prices and mess with the colonist’s rights. It was supply and demand. If only one company could sell tea and people wanted it they could raise as high as they wanted. Boston Tea Party 1773 The Boston Tea Party was in…

were being taxed on everything they dumped chests of tea in the water which made the British angry. The colonies rights were soon taken away. After the Boston Tea Party, the intolerable act was created. The intolerable act was created to punish the colonist for throwing away hundreds chests of tea into the water, this seized all trade and communication in the outside world by closing the port of Boston. This was meant to continue until all of the tea was paid for, although that didn't happen.…

Imagine you were living in a time where you were controlled by an outside governing body and you are being taxed and your rights are being taken away. Then there is one event that pushes you over the edge and makes your fellow colonist want to rebel. The British did many things to the colonist that made the colonist want to rebel against the British and to start their own government. The colonist had many great reasons to leave the control of England and to become its own independent country…

The American Revolution granted the former U.S. freedom from Great Britain. The Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain brawled against one another; the thirteen colonies objective was to become independent, while Great Britain fought to maintain its power over them. The war lasted about eight years, from 1775 to 1783, and consisted of many contributing factors that would eventually lead in freedom for the colonies. Important aspects include, by what means the war commenced, certain acts, colonial…

Intolerable act. During the Intolerable act, the British’ Parliament had a term that the American Patriot’s had a series of punitive laws that was passed against the Americans. The colonists revolted by throwing a large tea shipment into the Boston harbor, creating the Boston Tea Party, they thrown about…