Boston Tea Party

Tired of a tyrannical government, a group of men, who refuse to pay a tax, dump foreign property into the ocean as a statement of defiance. This was the Boston Tea Party, and is one of the earliest cases of civil disobedience in American history. Civil disobedience is what improves a country, and that is why it has a positive effect on a free society. Civil disobedience means to disobey, to rebel, and all great governments were built on rebellion. The United States of America is prime…

estimated that hundreds took part in the Boston Tea Party. For fear of punishment, many participants of the Boston Tea Party remained anonymous for many years after the event. To date it is known that 116 people are documented to have participated. Not all of the participants of the Boston Tea Party are known; many carried the secret of their participation to their graves. The participants were made up of males from all walks of colonial society. In Boston Harbor, a group of…

Concerns rose, however, from events, such as the Boston Tea Party in which the Sons of Liberty threw thousands of pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. The reason for this was the Americans were protesting unfair taxation as Parliament was ordering them to pay taxes, even though they had no representation in the British government. In addition to the Boston Tea Party, there is Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense, in which he informs the masses that the…

products; leading to more troops in Boston. Tensions quickly led to violence and indirectly to the Boston Massacre of 1770, when an angry mob provoked a soldier to fire openly into a crowd of people. One of the biggest forms of rebellion the colonists showed towards the British was the Boston Tea Party of 1773. A group of colonists disguised as American Indians got on a British ship at night and threw the tea overboard into the harbor, ruining all of it. The Boston Tea Party was an act of…

Shortly before Paine’s arrival, the Sons of Liberty, a rebellious group of colonists, threw 343 barrells of tea into the Boston Harbor (Tindall and Shi 128). The actions of the defiant colonists may have seemed radical at first, but the numerous taxes and restrictions that the British government had given unto them caused many Americans, including Paine, to believe that The Boston Tea Party was justified. When Paine traveled to America, or “the Continents” as he called them, he was given a fresh…

In his novel, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution, Alfred F. Young approaches, researches, and answers several inquiries surrounding the Boston Tea Party. He has also done extensive research into the life of a participant in the events of December 16, 1773, George Robert Twelves Hewes. Young provides his readers with an in-depth understanding of Hewes and his connection to the Tea Party and the Revolution in order to answer questions even historians did not…

other reasons why the revolution occurred. There was the Boston Tea Party in 1773 when colonists dressed as American Indians threw million dollars of worth of tea into the sea. There was the Intolerable Act. The intolerable act had five acts. There was the Quartering Act where the king forced colonists to take British troops to their home. The Boston Port Act was where the king shut down the port of Boston to cut the trade until the cost of tea was paid back. The Massachusetts Government Act was…

Revolutionary War was the Boston Tea party. There was a lot of more events that led up to the war, but this one was by far the main reason they went to war. The Boston Tea Party was the main reason for the American Revolutionary war because it was the last event leading up to war, it was like dumping gold in the water, and colonist didn’t realize how much it meant to them. It was the last event that happened before the war on December 16, 1773 was when the Boston Tea Party took place. The…

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…

In March 1770, there were a group of British troops in Boston that were stationed there for duty. On the 5th day of the month, there was one troop guarding the Boston Customs Home and some boys came along and began to throw snowballs at the guard and insulting them as well. The occurrences at the scene caused a group to show up and the guard called for help which…