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    While there are a plethora of causes of the American Revolution, both large and small, three causes stand out as being the most directly exigent. The Boston Tea Party, in 1773, was the first of these, followed by the Coercive Acts, passed in 1774, concluding with the famous military exchanges at Lexington and Concord in 1775. Each of these moments in history stand out as a key event in the extensive, action-packed prelude to the American Revolution. One of the most well-known quotes from the…

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    3.0 BCG Analysis Pride and Ferrell (2010, p.35) states that Boston Consulting Group (BCG) approach is based on the philosophy that a product’s market growth rate and its market share are important considerations in determining its marketing strategy. A company’s business units can be categorized into four categories which are stars, cash cows, question marks and dogs. On the vertical axis (Refer to figure 1), market growth provides a measure of market attractiveness while on the horizontal axis…

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    Boston Tea Party On the evening of December 16th, 1773, Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded ships in the Boston Harbor. Later that night they would dump over 300 chests of tea into the water beneath them. Their goal was to protest the tax on tea, “No taxation without representation.” This major historic event is thought to have caused the American Revolution which started in 1775. The Boston Tea Party was important because it was the first major act of defiance by American colonists.…

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    It was the night of December 16, 1773, 342 chests of tea that belonged to the East India Company were thrown into Boston harbor by American Patriots. Americans were throwin this tea into the harbor because we were going to lose money. Britain was selling this tea for a low price so they can make more money for themselves. Ships carrying the tea were refused permission to dock in New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. By these men doing this it showed the British what all the colonist thought…

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    special way. In This essay, you will learn about the life of Samuel Adams, Samuel Adams is one of the founding fathers of the Unites States of America, Adams also helped to arrange the Boston Tea Party. Samuel Adams planned the Boston Tea Party, which was when People dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. The cause of the Boston tea party was because people were angry at the new tax on tea. Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722. Samuel Adams was born in Massachusetts. Even though his father…

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    and ideas leading up to it. The two events that had the greatest influence in the American Revolution are the enlightenment and the Boston Tea Party. The enlightenment was extremely important in the American Revolution for its influence on the ideology of the American people.…

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    The Boston Tea Party took place December 16, 1773. The reason it took place was because of a phrase: “No taxation without representation”. The phrase meant everyone paid the same tax and no one could influence the king’s decision. No one wanted to pay that amount of tax so they wanted to conspire a plan resulting in the Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was the most well planned rebellion of the 18th and 19th century. A group of Patriots, known as the Sons of Liberty and led by a man named…

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    Chapter Five The Boston Tea Party: The Boston Tea Party was one of the biggest protests ever to have been done. Samuel Adams leading it, he got the sons of Liberty to dress like indians, board ships carrying many chests of tea and dumped them into the water. 342 chests of tea turned…

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    different actions taken on both sides of the war. On the side of the colonies, The American Revolution could have been prevented. One way is the prevention of the Boston Tea Party. The colonists were angered from the refusal of returning the tea at port in the Boston Tea Party. This concluded in them rebelling by dumping the tea into the Boston Harbor. A line from Rise to Rebellion written by Jeff Shaara is, “It is proposed that the people,...do whatever in their power to prevent the tea on…

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    know example of this rebellion was the Boston Tea Party. In Boston when the tea arrived on the Dartmouth the colonists refused to pay the duties in order to have the tea shipped back to England. This was to show England that their tea was unnecessary and that the colonies could survive without its aid. The Boston Tea Party was sparked when this proposal was declined by the consignees and Governor who were appointed by Britain. “In 1773 some colonists in Boston, Massachusetts demonstrated…

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