Tea Party protests

The French and Indian War, also known as the 7 Years War was the starting point for America’s independence from Great Britain; or the American Revolution. Both England and France were trying to stake claim to the land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River. When Washington and his men crossed into the territory the French took them captive and this was only the beginning. Retaliations from both sides continued between the two. Eventually the conflict in America would ignite a war in…

The Boston Tea Party has always been interesting to me. I always used to think of it as something that was comical when told this story in elementary history, with colonists dressing up as Native Americans and throwing tea into Boston Harbor. It never seemed like a serious thing to me until I aged a little and realized the true meaning behind these acts, I feel as though I would’ve been a part of it. The other reason why I picked this site is due to the fact that I’ve always been the type of…

The Townshend Acts required a tax on imported goods received by the colonies. This included glass, lead, paint, paper, and what made everyone horrified, tea. Colonials felt that they were being taken advantage of and certainty let the King know. All the taxes from the Townshend Acts, excluding tea, were repealed in 1770. A protest against this took place in Massachusetts where boycotting protesters were harassing the British agents stationed in Boston. It turned from arguing, to throwing…

suffering, that the wrong people have freedom and the wrong people are out of freedom. Howard Zinn once said, “It’s the way we as a nation refuse to obey with certain laws which leads to the refusal to paying fines, and taxes, as a peaceful political protest would be.” (Zinn). The long history of man is one of pain and suffering. Let all people be fearless and enriched with bravery. However, let them be fulfilled to the right type of obedience. In 1847, Thoreau, an American essayist, poet,…

The taxes paired with the mercantile nature of parliament prompted the nonimportation movement, a boycott of imported British goods. Women were forefront of the movement, creating homespun clothing and fabrics. Britain saw the protests and rebellions, and deployed additional soldiers to “guard royal offices and arrest violent rebels” (Dockswell 27). Massachusetts was a hotbed of colonial rebellion, so when parliament sent reinforcements to Boston, tensions rose between colonists…

The American colonists’ actions towards Britain were justified. The British habit of forcefully imposing taxes upon the colonists without their permission was unfair and contributed to the justification of the colonists’ actions. For example, the Stamp Act was levied upon a multitude of paper products used in everyday life and was considered “a very burdensome and … unconstitutional tax” (Doc 10) by the colonists. This tax caused some of the first sparks of American resentment towards Britain…

be seen as political prisoners instead of criminals, and this brought attention and popularity to their cause. The suffragettes used a form of indirect civil disobedience. Their main tactic was not to vote where it was not permitted, but rather to protest and picket and get arrested for it. This was effective, but differed from the civil disobedience practiced during the civil rights movement. Arguably the most famous example of peaceful resistance to a law in American history was when Rosa…

The 13 colonies, that would eventually become the United States, had long been under the rule of Great Britain. For many years the colonists and leaders of Great Britain had a formidable relationship with one another. However as time went on the colonists realized the wrongdoings of the parliament and demanded change. The American Revolution didn’t just happen out of thin air, there were events for years that caused the uprising of the colonists that resulted in the war. If we take a closer look…

the year 1773, which was only three years after the Boston Massacre. This event would come to be known as the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party occurred because Britain still wasn’t able to generate a decent amount of revenue, even though they had just enacted the Townshend Acts. So as a result of not being able to create enough revenue Parliament decided to increase the tax on tea. “While exempting it from some of the trade regulations that increased shipping costs (Ghere and Spreeman 10).…

The first part begins with protests and rebellions against British taxes and regulations led by the Sons of Liberty as a response to the passage of the Stamp Act. Vividly describing the causes and effects of Boston Massacre as well as a passage of the Tea Act, the author introduced the course changing event in American history, the act of raging rebels throwing all tea chests from the British ships into the sea as a sign of opposition, known as the Boston Tea Party. Furthermore, the inhabitants…