Tea Party protests

The Boston Tea Party was the dumping of tea into the harbor in Boston. This act was committed by The Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty were a group of colonists that were protesting against British taxes and laws. They were led by Samuel Adams.They dressed as Mohawk Indians to climb aboard ships and protest by dumping tea into the Harbor. The Boston tea party was the result of angry colonists protesting. They were protesting the British Tea tax. The British Tea tax was the tax on tea. Nine…

patriotism and an idea of justice. The Boston Tea Party further galvanized colonists, especially when the acting English government, as retribution, implemented the Intolerable Acts. The act of resistance resulted in a pushback that ironically helped strengthen the opposition and their belief in justice. Though the peaceful resistance of the Patriots eventually translated into the War for Independence, a physical war would never have occurred had protests and boycotts not happened when laws they…

The American colonies were becoming more separated from Britain every day. By 1763, their relationship was weak and the next thirteen years would do nothing but make it worse. Colonists were not initially resistant to British rule, but after years of being stripped of their freedoms they shifted toward the idea of separating from Britain and creating their own government that would incorporate Republican values. After the Seven Years’ War, British troops remained in America. The cost of…

The American Revolution was the act of which the American colonies split from the British nation to form their own country. Throughout the pre revolutionary years from 1607 till 1774 the colonies had no trouble being owned by the British until the rise of the war happened. The economic factors were the main cause of the American Revolution. After the 7 year war against the Indian and French the British government needed to raise taxes to recoup the money that was lost during the war. The…

The American Revolutionary War of 1775 also known as The War for America in Chapter 7 of “The American Promise” was a war between England and settlers of the thirteen British colonies on the North American continent. The war was the result of the political American Revolution which was triggered by the prosperous goods and natural resources of the territories. In 1775 the colonists overthrew British rule by seizing control of each of the thirteen colonial governments, which obviously wasn’t…

injustice and wanted the social structure between the colonies to change. This led to relentless boycotts of British goods and protests which, resulted in the Boston Massacre of 1770 (Lowi et al, 2014, p. 36). Another leading event, that led to the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party, the merchants got the radicals on their side to dispose of all the East India Company’s tea into the Boston Harbor. It caused the radicals to form a widespread support for independence against the British…

Protest. This simple word brings to mind images of violent revolution, interactions between civilians and officers of the law. Perhaps, specifically the Boston Tea Party, The Occupy Wall Street Movement, or The Salt March. Famous names also come to mind, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks, all were known for their use of civil disobedience. However, one name is not oft remembered but deserves to be, as he coined the term ‘civil disobedience,’ Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau…

These protests against such policies were both positive and negative towards the treatment of the colonists, take for example the enforcement of the Intolerable Act which was a rule set in part due to the Boston Tea Party event and resulted in the total shutdown of the Boston seaports. Socially, the colonists were united by their dislike towards the British Crown…

from England. After countless years under British control, the colonies were able to stand on their own in 1776, which happened to be the year the Declaration of Independence was written. To escape England’s tyranny, the thirteen colonies had to protest and start a war against Great Britain before being able to be labeled as an independent nation. In order to gain absolute independence, colonists ended many British connections such as; economical ties by damaging British goods, emotional ties by…

000 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…