Boston

Boston, Massachusetts leading up to the Revolutionary War The French and Indian war had ended and the British were drowning in debt. The year was 1763, and Britain had defeated France with the aid of the colonies. Their victory, however, had been obtained at a very high cost and now they had to pay it back. Parliament decided that the colonies should help pay off the debt because they were protecting them and their land. The colonists would have been in danger had it not been for Britain their…

played a key role for America’s freedom from English rule. One of the most important of these event was the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party is often thought of as just an act of dumping tea into the Boston Harbor. However the night of December 16, 1773 was much more than an act of anger. It was a symbolic act of patriotism that sparked the American Revolution. The reason behind the Boston Tea Party was the unfair taxation that the British Parliament was passing that aggravated the…

This was the date of the Boston Massacre, which was, in no sense, truly a massacre. In Boston there were many people who felt as though Britain was hurting America. On the evening of March 5th, a group of rioters formed around British soldiers. They started to throw a lot of things at the soldiers, trying to…

The Boston Tea Party consisted of hundreds of men, disguised as American Indians in order to hide their identity and avoid punishment, dumping 92,000 pounds of tea into the ocean. In today’s money, it was worth more than 1,700,000 dollars. The shipment came…

from other British subjects. Pioneer protection prompted brutality in 1770, when British warriors opened fire on a crowd of colonists, slaughtering five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. When a band of Bostonians dressed like Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped hundreds chests of tea into Boston Harbor, a shocked Parliament passed a progression of measures intended to reassert…

activist Samuel Adams and a group of rebels who attacked three ships laden with tea in Boston city, and took the throw tea into the sea in clear defiance of the settlers, and were followed by the other rebels in the rest of the colonies, and has since come to be renamed the incident to «tea party in Boston», one of the most important…

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest on December 16, 1773 that represented the rebellion of the colonies from Great Britain. It was predominantly caused by the colonists’ opposition to being taxed without being represented in Parliament. Britain had placed a tax on the colonists’ tea; this caused the tension between the colonists and Great Britain to rise until it came to a head in the Boston massacre and soon led to the Boston Tea Party. Tea had been frequently imported to the colonies…

1. The Boston Massacre was a result of American colonialists who harassed and intimidated the British military in regards to the Stamp Act. This act violated the rights of the American colonialists because it was passed without their consent and did not benefit them. Several people were injured and killed in this attack between the British military and the colonialists. Many would say that this was propaganda to promote opposition against the British rule. The Boston Tea Party was also a very…

The event sparked off the passing of legislative measures that were aimed at ending the commerce of Boston once and for all. Soon, the Boston Harbor closed, and my tea trade was no good to anyone. Soon, I found myself more intrigued towards the objectives of the Patriots even though I did feel numerous times that I had no choice regarding the same. 6.1 to understand what…

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…