Tea

legislature passes the new law called the Tea Act. The law granted a British company the monopoly on the tea trade of America, so the company launched delivering tea to American colonies free from England taxes. The American settlers were furious because other tea dealers still must pay taxes to England. American people flatly refused to buy any tea and rejected to unload the goods from the British ships. So in the end, some Sons of Liberty members dumped a tea overboard in the Boston Harbor.…

It had helped the British’s sale in tea because the East India Company was still in shock of the downfall in money. Us as colonists looked at it as “No taxation without representation.” This Act had made us irritated, especially John Hancock because he couldn’t make enough money to afford…

As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, all men are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of 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…

Morgan Nason History 103 (Bridge History) Journal #2 Power Struggle The vast dispute between Great Britain and the Colonies before the Revolutionary War was a struggle over power. The dispute started during/after the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War) when the British had taken all the credit for winning, even though the colonists had played a very big part in fighting the war. After the war ended, the British had huge war debts. The war very costly and Britain didn’t really have a way…

1773, he blindly participated in the Boston Tea Party by ushering the ships to dock at the harbor. November 28, when the Dartmouth arrived at the Boston Harbor. Adams and other people that walked the streets were determined that the tea on board would not reach the land. On the evening of the 28th, if caught by the police, the group would threaten conflict. Two other ships arrived with Dartmouth, the Beaver and Eleanor, with the same crates of tea. The Tea Act required that the tax was paid in…

paints, and tea that was imported into the colonies. The colonist saw the Townshend acts as an abuse of power from the Parliament. They felt that Great Britain was just trying to show them who is still boss. Many colonies communicated through mail about protesting against these new laws parliament passed; by doing this the colonies made Parliament repeal the Townshend acts in 1770, but they kept taxes on…

to the Ohio river as a 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…

have no representatives in the british parliament. It is against the law for them to tax” (Doc.1) These are the words of Patrick Henry in response to the british taxes. The intolerable acts were the rules that britain set for the colonists after the tea party.…

The imperial crisis was the beginning of the war for independence. It was a conflict between Britain and its 13 colonies. The imperial crisis’ conflict was the colonists living in America were fighting for their right not to be deprived of their property without their consent. In 1763 Britain was finally not at war with any other companies. At this time, they started to see all the debt they have incurred from previous wars. King George III was the new king on the throne. He was young and quite…

The Real American Revolution The British American colonists believed that as full British citizens they were equally entitled to the rights and privileges of the British Constitution,but in Great Britain they disagreed,they thought of the colonists as subordinate not equal and that the colonists were intended to serve the mother country.The colonists were frustrated that they were not being recognized as true Britons and felt they were being deprived of their “English Liberties”,quarrels over…