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    grievances”(congress). If done the right way, protests can have a great outcome, with no harm done or casualties. But in history, one may learn that the greatest protests, involved many deaths, and some even went completely against the government. People protest for the sole reason that a group is being treated unfairly, or most importantly, to make a change. Protests can vary in many different ways, such as in peaceful manors, boycotting, or even signing a…

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    India Company tea moored in Boston Harbor (Boston Tea Party Facts). Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty had boarded these three ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard (The Boston Tea Party). This event is known as The Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was a key act of civil uprising, galvanizing Americans around the issue of taxation, and spurring them towards revolution. The Boston Tea Party was an essential step towards revolution. The Boston Tea Party had served as a protest…

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    The Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by a secret organization referred to as the Sons of Liberty, which was created in the thirteen American colonies. Its purpose was to protect the rights of the colonists and fight the British against taxation. This resulted in the British passing Coercive Acts to punish the colonists for the protests, which further pushed the Americans into war with the British. However, there is a debate upon whether the colonials or the British…

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    colonies declared the independent of the Unite States, it was the result of the war between the American colonies and the Britain. A lot of people might have heard about the Boston Tea Party, a bunch of Americans dumped British tea into Boston Harbor, but many do not know how important it was. In fact, the Boston Tea Party was the trigger of the American Independent War. In the year of 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which were laws that put taxes on products which imported into the…

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    responsible for the war debt. ‘Parliament enacted a series of tax measures over the next ten years that sparked outrage throughout the colonies(Sheidley).’The several acts passed by the Parliament such as, the tea act infuriated the colonies and finally retaliated, which is known as the Boston Tea Party. The unjust and irrational decisions made by King George III led to the corruption of government and later evolved into the American Revolution. Although the taxes were the main reason of…

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    Boston Tea Party On the evening of December 16th, 1773, Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded ships in the Boston Harbor. Later that night they would dump over 300 chests of tea into the water beneath them. Their goal was to protest the tax on tea, “No taxation without representation.” This major historic event is thought to have caused the American Revolution which started in 1775. The Boston Tea Party was important because it was the first major act of defiance by American colonists.…

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    This group was lead by none other than Samuel Adams. This group would protest against the King with their commonly known slogan around the Americas, “No Taxation Without Representation.” Protesters would chant this saying around town squares across the Country, the saying came from the idea that one government should not impose…

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    choose it over tea. I correlate drinking coffee with the American Revolution and the Boston Tea Party. I will be discussing the history of coffee culture in America by going over how we starting drinking coffee over tea. I will start by going over the history of the coffee culture in America by discussing the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution. I will also discuss the some myths associated with coffee in America of instance that the colonist didn’t dump full crates of tea into the…

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    the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts, to the outrage of American Patriots, on this day in 1774. The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government. The aim of the legislation was to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonians for their Tea Party, in which members of the revolutionary-minded Sons of Liberty boarded three British tea ships in…

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    and that led them to protest against Great Britain. A major action that the colonists took was the Boston Tea Party, this was when the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Indians and went on multiple ships to dump out all the tea to protest the taxes. The colonists also took the action of putting tar and chicken feathers on British tax collectors to show disapproval of taxation. The British put taxes on things such as stamps, glass,…

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