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knows something about the Boston Tea Party, but some people have a misunderstanding of the events occurring at that time in our country’s history and what lead the colonists to act the way they did toward the British government. The Tea Act of 1773 was supposed to benefit the colonists by lowering tax rates on tea. Instead of being content with this arrangement, the colonists were enraged. They felt it was unfair of England to make them pay taxes at all. The Tea Act did too little, and did…

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…

try doing, instead of speaking. To be honest, it is going to take you a long time to just speak your opinion and have it be done. That's not how the world works. Some people think that the Boston Tea Party was an actual tea party where you, sat down and drank tea. However, there's way more to this tea party. It all started with a group of men called The Sons Of Liberty. Why did they get in trouble? They got in trouble because they went against the kings rules and, when you go against a person…

us. I remember when the Boston Tea party happened. It was the road that led us down the path to signing the declaration of Independence. These brave men gave their lives so that we could live in a place where we did have to live our lives worrying if we would have enough food to last us through the next day. Hundreds of soldiers had given their lives so that we could be free. I am re- enlisting because the army needs me, we need to fight for our country. The Boston tea party has made this all…

Not the Colonist’s Cup of Tea There was a lot of tension between the England and the English colonies in North America during the 1700s. England saw the colonists as second-class citizens. The King and Parliament thought that they knew best for the colonists and made laws that England benefited from but the colonists suffered for. One of the unjust laws that the colonists had very little tolerance for was the tax on tea. The Boston Tea Party was the colonists respond to this tax. There were…

Boston Tea Party Do you really know what had happened during the Boston Tea Party? Boston Tea Party is an important event of the America’s history. In 1773, the United States did not exist yet. Britain was in control of the thirteen colonies which it is the United States later on. People had come to the colonies for a new life, but instead they were stuck in the British rule. People were getting tired of the rule, and they were starting to rebel. Boston Tea Party was one of the events of the…

The colonists were, indeed, justified in their actions of dumping the crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. The East India Company, one day, decided that they were going to charge American colonists less money for tea. However, the tea started to become taxed, once the British government got involved. American colonists tried to get their point across with words, but weren't able to get them to listen. As well as this, they later had to pay an outrageous amount of taxes because of the Stamp Act.…

Not only did Professor Carp address the influence that the Boston Tea party held over the role of women and the American Revolution, but also the influence it held over abolitionists. Slavery at the time had been no stranger to America, and Jefferson, who came from a society that knew the realities of slavery, had commented that, “The abolition of slavery is a great object of desire in these colonies, where it was unhappily reproduced…” Though slaveowners, like Jefferson, helped to perpetuate…

The Boston Tea Party An Annotated Bibliography "The Boston Tea Party." Boston Tea Party of 1773 ***. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Nov. 2015. The conflict arose after French and Indian War. Since Britain was left with immense amount of debt from the war, they were seeking ways to impose taxes. Britain imposed taxes on many different things. These are the examples: sugar, currency, stamp, tea, and many other imported items. The Boston Tea Party had several effects. During the process of blocking Boston…

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…