Tea Act

happiness, and when a government impinges on these rights, it the responsibility of the people to form a new government. The British government committed several acts that exemplified its failure in fulfilling its mission of securing the unalienable rights including taxation without representation, Boston Massacre, and the Intolerable Acts. As a result of Britain’s failure to protect the colonists’ political freedoms, economic wellbeing, and safety, it is the duty of the colonists to declare…

protesting against the large number of British soldiers present in the city. The presence of soldiers in the city was to protect the customers commissioners when they enforced recent; highly unpopular, Townshend act, that enforced import tax on products from England, goods i.e. Glass, tea, paper and…

currency, but The Stamp Act of 1765 totally frustrated the colonists. The settlers did a rebel against the monarchy. That means that the colonists could not agree with England any more even though there was a mother’s country. Thus, all disappointed people participated in the meeting as Sons of Liberty. Belonging the people at that club broke the tax collector’s home and burned the many of the documents. Time passed, in 1773, an England legislature passes the new law called the Tea Act. The law…

Who is a Tea Partier? Surrounded by the silence of a cool winter night, three ships nestled within the peaceful, warming waters of Boston Harbor. All at once, with a sudden shriek, the serenity that encompassed the harbor had all but shattered as colonists dressed in Indian garb marched onto and seized three British ships. Under the warlike, fiery gaze of the constellation Orion, the disguised colonists, determined in their resolve, dumped 342 crates of Britain’s finest tea in the bottomless…

Parliament passed a series of acts designed to pay the debt with colonial assistance. The American colonists were not happy with such tight control. The first act passed by the British Parliament on April 5, 1764 was The Sugar Act, also called Plantation Act, or Revenue Act, with the goal of raising 100,000 pounds, an amount equal to one-fifth of the military expenses in North America. This act was a modified version of the Molasses Act of 1733. The Sugar…

result of the Quebec Act of 1774.The Quebec Act was a part of The Coercive Acts (or Intolerable Acts), which were a response to The Boston Tea Party. Great Britain wanted to retaliate against American colonists in Massachusetts because England had unfairly taxed tea, and the colonists were upset and dumped the tea into the Boston harbor. Great Britain sought to punish Massachusetts, so it would serve as a warning to the other twelve colonies to not cause chaos. The Quebec Act was passed by the…

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…

Samuel Adams is a monumental political American hero who assisted in leading the movement towards the American revolution, an event that started American history and lasted from 1775 and lasted until 1783. He was a key player is events against various acts and taxes put on the new world by Great Britain. Without his courage and bravery to stand up against Great Britain America would not be what it is today. Samuel Adams was born on September twenty seventh, seventeen twenty two in Boston…

papers "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine and "Letters of a Westchester Farmer" by Reverend Samuel Seabury explain the point of views on the struggles between the thirteen colonies and Great Britain. The idea of freedom leading to salutary neglect, strict acts and taxes, and rebellious reactions led to the start of the American Revolution. These circumstances were heavily planted onto the colonists after the King of Britain demanded obedience but was not receiving any. Dissatisfied and angry…

was the Stamp Act. It said that colonists had to buy tax stamps for printed materials. Many colonists refused to pay. They said they had not voted on the tax (No taxation without representation). Colonists under the leadership of Samuel Adams formed the Sons of Liberty to protest the Stamp Act. Since the Stamp Act did not work, Britain replaced it with a tax on imported goods, the Townshend Acts. So colonists refused to buy imports. The Daughters of Liberty formed to make tea and cloth.…