Intolerable Acts

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 of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. The…

The picture is a painting of men at a battle and depicts the battle of Lexington and Concord. The battles of Lexington and Concord were the initial military engagements the marked the start of the American Revolution. The battles marked the start of armed conflict between the thirteen colonies in British America and the kingdom of Great Britain. The British government had made arrangement to resist the enforcement of alterations made to the colonial government after the Boston Tea party. The…

By using the law, the hierarchy became abnormal and artificial. Financial forces, notably the increase of Atlantic trading networks, had the influence to corrode this order. Ordinary men could become richer than the elite gentry, act like them and intermarry with them. In the mid-eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin defined population revolution precisely. He saw that early and regular marriages and bigger families were dragging America 's entire population closer to Britain 's…

government due to taxes being placed on the colonies in order to raise revenue, the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1773 were met with heated protests from colonists who demanded to have the same rights as other British subjects. On December 1773 a group of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians got on British ships and dumped 342 boxes of tea into the Boston Harbor, enraged by these acts Parliament passed a series…

enacted five legislative acts, also known as the Coercive Acts. Those acts were intended to restore British authority in the colony. The Boston Port Act closed the Boston port until the losses were fully payed. The Massachusetts Government Act regulated who was appointed to the council positions. The Administration of Justice Act protected British officials from criminal prosecutions. The Quartering Act allowed the troops from the British army to stay in colonists house. This Act also allowed…

£384,000 a year to maintain.” Parliament needed to find a way to offset this significant debt and replenish its national treasury. Thus, Great Britain exercised its power through taxes. Numerous acts were imposed on the colonists to restore the funds lost during the war. The Sugar Act, or the Revenue Act, was passed by Parliament on April 5,…

Robert Gross shows the significant role of Concord, Massachusetts, in the fight for independence through the perspective of the common person, in his book, The Minutemen and their World. Gross presents Concord as a town that played a great role in the revolution, while altering the community forever. Concord life is explained before, during, and after, “A shot heard ‘round the world.” Although Gross supports his ideas with numerous sources of evidence, he states that history is not simply an…

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 about the Tea Act. Sam Adams had the bright idea that he thought everyone should have a couple drinks before they do this. All of the colonists acting like this made the British to think the colonies were not mature enough or ready to be on their own as a country.…

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…

There is nothing on earth like Fleet Street. The thoroughfare, which runs like a crooked spine through east central London has been the home of the British press for 300 years. Here are published almost all of Britain’s national newspapers. Here also are the headquarters of many magazines, foreign and provincial press bureaus, international news agencies, trade papers, and the attic offices of freelance journalists. It was in Fleet Street tavern that the British press was born. Three centuries…