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The Boston Tea Party was quite an event in American History, it was a very powerful sense of rebellion. Today I will be discussing different viewpoints of this event from five different people. With its major impact it had, people have quite a lot to say about this action of resistance. I will be discussing sources from the textbook, America: A Narrative History, online sources and RCC Library sources. I shall discuss arguments, summarize articles, and determine if an article is biased or…

American colonies declared the independent of the Unite States, it was the result of the war between the American colonies and the Britain. A lot of people might have heard about the Boston Tea Party, a bunch of Americans dumped British tea into Boston Harbor, but many do not know how important it was. In fact, the Boston Tea Party was the trigger of the American Independent War. In the year of 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which were laws that put taxes on products which imported…

occurred called The Boston Massacre. English soldiers were sent to the United States to “maintain order”, which was an underlying problem for the Bostonians.The Boston Massacre was a tragic event that eventually led to the American Revolution. Overall, the problems that led up to The Boston Massacre were rooted in the colonial resentment that the Bostonians had for the English parliament. Many people who lived in Boston had “bad feelings” about the english soldiers since they got to Boston,…

The Boston Tea Party: What would have happened if it had never taken place? What would have happened if the colonists had never thrown the tea overboard?. On the night of December 16, 1773, three hundred forty-two chests of tea were thrown overboard into the Boston Harbor by Samuel Adams and The Sons of Liberty. They did this with the intention of having one goal in mind, meaning no more taxes. Since the Boston Tea Party was one of the biggest events that led up to the American Revolution, one…

The boston Massacre was not a spur of the moment kind of thing. There had been tension between the British and Colonist for a while. The Colonist think that the British have been abusing their power and using it for putting many taxes over the colonies. There was many debates on British taxes, especially the navigation and sugar act. As the British kept piling on taxes the Colonies had enough and finally decide to have the protest which led to the Boston Massacre. Many documentations or pictures…

of the Boston Tea Party. Hewes tells of the town meeting held at the Old South Church where the colonists asked that the East India Company tea not be imported. Samuel Adams then rises from his seat and proclaims, “This meeting can do nothing to save the country.” Once the meeting was adjourned colonists took notice of the Mohawk Indians charging towards the harbor. The Indians paddled towards the British tea ship, hopped aboard, then proceeded to dump 18,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor…

On the night of December 16, 1773, one of America’s biggest acts of rebellion took place: The Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party is one of those topics that’s been heard in just about every history class. It’s mainly seen as a story in which a group of colonists decide to gather together and dump crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. But really, it 's much more significant than that. It was the event that unified Americans against British taxation and made them realize the true oppression…

The Boston Tea Party An Annotated Bibliography "The Boston Tea Party." Boston Tea Party of 1773 ***. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Nov. 2015. The conflict arose after French and Indian War. Since Britain was left with immense amount of debt from the war, they were seeking ways to impose taxes. Britain imposed taxes on many different things. These are the examples: sugar, currency, stamp, tea, and many other imported items. The Boston Tea Party had several effects. During the process of blocking Boston…

Not only did Professor Carp address the influence that the Boston Tea party held over the role of women and the American Revolution, but also the influence it held over abolitionists. Slavery at the time had been no stranger to America, and Jefferson, who came from a society that knew the realities of slavery, had commented that, “The abolition of slavery is a great object of desire in these colonies, where it was unhappily reproduced…” Though slaveowners, like Jefferson, helped to perpetuate…

Boston Tea Party Do you really know what had happened during the Boston Tea Party? Boston Tea Party is an important event of the America’s history. In 1773, the United States did not exist yet. Britain was in control of the thirteen colonies which it is the United States later on. People had come to the colonies for a new life, but instead they were stuck in the British rule. People were getting tired of the rule, and they were starting to rebel. Boston Tea Party was one of the events of the…