Tea Act

which included the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, and the Intolerable Acts. These taxes passed by British Parliament served to strengthen the colonists’ republican beliefs as well as their opposition to the British imperialists. One of the first laws passed by Parliament to create an uproar among the people was the Sugar Act. The Sugar Act…

ignored it. In 1765, Stamp Act, they started excising taxes on all kinds of printed matter. It was aimed to be easy to collect but only a little money was accumulated. And tea act in 1773, Governor Hutchinson thought tea would land and tax would be collected and in December 16, a band of colonists disguised as Indians dumped the tea overboard and this made the British furious. The Americans weren’t happy with the taxes and hence Boston tea party happened as they dumped tea boxes into the Boston…

oppression. Now, in the modern world, governments are more or less established, and for them to be changed, the people must act. Civil disobedience is woven through the fabric of the United States. The Revolutionary war granted the underdog colonies independence-- not just independence but freedom. An event that strengthened and popularized the revolution was a great symbolic act of civil disobedience. On December 16th, 1773, after a long struggle against the British trying to tax the colonies…

Our Parliament’s act is called the Townshend Acts named after Charles Townshend who was Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (or treasury department) and passed the British Parliament in an effort to exercise greater royal authority over the American colonies and to levy new taxes. The acts, sometimes were called the American Import Duties Acts and was passed in 1767. The Parliament’s reason for passing the act is Parliament still intended to raise money from the colonies to pay off Britain’s…

actions that they would not usually display. Two examples of individuals following a higher moral law are Antigone, the main character of the age-old Greek play Antigone by Sophocles, and Samuel Adams, an American freedom fighter who led the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Both of these individuals committed civil disobedience, which is a peaceful yet meaningful nonviolent form of resistance committed by breaking specific laws set by a government or other group. Though both committed civil…

actions lead to the Revolutionary War? The Sons and Daughters of Liberty impacted the lives of many people. The group all started because of the Stamp and Townshend Acts. The Townshend Act was the tax that was put onto imported things like glass, paper, and tea. The Stamp Act taxed anything that was printed paper, like newspapers. These acts made some of the colonists furious. They started boycotting trying to make the government put…

printed on paper, known as the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act had been pressed upon American’s without the consent of the colonial legislature. Because of this, several colonists wanted to rebel against Britain and her unjust rule over the colonies. As a result, quickly after its founding, the Sons of Liberty group membership spread to many other colonial towns including New York City and Charleston, South Carolina. The once small group of…

really did a good job. After the French and Indian War, the British want American colonies to paid all the war funds, but that is not what we want, right? Colonial people continued to be imposed various exorbitant taxes (Sugar act, stamp act), after the promulgation of those act, colonial people started to protests and demonstrations, protesting against the stamp…

the Sugar Act which put taxes on many common food items that were not necessities but they were extremely popular items at the time. It also restricted who the colonists could buy these items from. For example, if Britain charged 3 dollars a pound for sugar and France charged 1 dollar a pound, then the colonists had to buy their sugar from Britain despite the price difference. This made the colonists upset with British Parliament but not as bad as the Stamp Act would. The Stamp Act was the…

although, the Colonists were left with no choice. England’s actions were radical and disrespectful at the least, and without them, there would not have been a revolution. England brought the revolution upon themselves, by enforcing the Currency Act, the Intolerable Acts and by fighting in the battles of Lexington and Concord. Since the British colonies were sapping all of the gold coinage out of the colonies, the colonies started printing their own paper bake notes, which quickly took the place…