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East India Company tea moored in Boston Harbor (Boston Tea Party Facts). Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty had boarded these three ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard (The Boston Tea Party). This event is known as The Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was a key act of civil uprising, galvanizing Americans around the issue of taxation, and spurring them towards revolution. The Boston Tea Party was an essential step towards revolution. The Boston Tea Party had served as a protest…

Boston Tea Party: The Cause While the British Parliament were trying to save the stumbling East India Company by exempting them on the export tax, the American colonist viewed this act as another illustration of taxation tyranny. On December 16th of 1773, a group of colonist in Massachusetts disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, gathered in Boston Harbor on three different British tea ships and discarded 342 chests of tea over the ships and into the Harbor (“Boston Tea Party,” 2007). This…

in a moments notice eleven colonists were shot and five colonists killed by British soldiers. The British had done it, they had created the Boston Massacre. The increase on taxes and the Quartering Act put in place by the British, made the colonists outraged and that led them to protest against Great Britain. A major action that the colonists took was the Boston Tea Party, this was when the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Indians and went on multiple ships to dump out all the tea to…

Primary Source Analysis: John Andrews to William Barrell, Letter regarding the Boston Tea Party (1773) Context: Since the beginning of the 17th century tea was being regularly imported to the American Colonies by the East India Company. An estimated 1.2 million pounds of tea were consumed by the Americans each year (Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum 2016, Boston Tea Party Facts: http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/boston-tea-party-facts). Britain realized they could increase their revenue of the…

pounds of tea from the East India Company to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charles Town. The citizens didn't want the tea to come, thinking that it would kill the American profits and get everyone one out of business. The Sons of Liberty made plans to stop the tea. In Boston, the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians, and boarded the ships filled with tea. They tipped the 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. This raid was known as the "Boston Tea Party". This protest happened because…

HIGH TEA IN BOSTON HARBOUR Band of “Mohawk Indians” Dump 342 Chests of Darjeeling off Griffin’s Wharf On December 16, 1773, The Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded three merchant ships carrying Darjeeling tea and dumped 343 chests into Boston Harbour. It is reported that nothing was stolen or looted and there was no damage to the ships or crew. This protest is a result of 13 years of ever increasing British oppression through taxation. Hardliners in the British government used…

acts in American history—the Boston Tea Party. The disguised men dumped 340 chests of chests into harbor causing the East India Company to lose nearly 10,000£ of tea. Today, the Boston Tea Party is seen in good light by the majority of Americans. While the Boston Tea Party was a true revolutionary act, today’s understanding of the Boston Tea Party is woven with three myths regarding the reason behind the act and the effects of it. The first myth behind the Boston Tea Party is that it was…

On May 10th, 1773, the Boston Tea Act was signed by the British. This allowed the British to have a complete monopoly on tea and raise its price and taxes, leading to the Boston Tea Party. After the Tea Act was passed, the East India Company was allowed to have a complete monopoly on virtually all tea sales, enabling them to raise the prices. The Colonists became more and more angered by the high tea prices, and began to protest the British and the East India Tea Company. On December 16th, 1773…

On December 16th of 1773, the Boston Tea Party, a political protest organized and executed by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts would impact not only the relations of the colonists and the British in the 18th century, but also how America would become how it is today: a global power of its own. After the end of salutary neglect and the implementation of taxes designed to relieve war debts, the citizens of the colonies felt cheated due to the lack of representation in Parliament from…

Almost every American knows something about the Boston Tea Party, but some people have a misunderstanding of the events occurring at that time in our country’s history and what lead the colonists to act the way they did toward the British government. The Tea Act of 1773 was supposed to benefit the colonists by lowering tax rates on tea. Instead of being content with this arrangement, the colonists were enraged. They felt it was unfair of England to make them pay taxes at all. The Tea Act did…