...Boston Tea Party 4 After Effects 1. Boston Harbor smelled as a result of over 92,000 pounds of tea dumped into the harbor. 2. The news of the Boston Tea Party reached London, England on January 20, 1774, and as a result the British shut down Boston Harbor until all of the 340 chests of British East India Company tea were paid for. 3. The implication and impact of the Boston Tea Party were enormous ultimately leading to the start of the American Revolution which began in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. 4. Many of the Boston Tea Party participants fled Boston immediately after the event to avoid arrest. The Intolerable Acts 4 After Effects 1. American colonists responded with protests and coordinated resistance by convening the First Continental Congress in September and October of 1774 to petition Britain to repeal the Intolerable Acts. 2. The first was the Boston Port Bill and it closed the Boston Harbor until the people of Boston paid for the tea that they threw into the harbor. It went into effect on June 1, 1774. 3. The Administration of Justice Act became effective May 20th and it did not allow British soldiers to be tried in the colonies for any crimes they might commit. This meant the soldiers could do anything they wanted since they would probably not be punished for their crimes. 4. The Massachusetts Government Act which also took effect on May 20, 1774, restricted town meetings to one a year unless the governor approved any more...
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...The Boston Tea Party Consequences The Boston Tea Party was one very big stand with various consequences.The Sons of Liberty had many members including, Samuel Adams, Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Edes, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Lamb, Joseph Warren, Paul Revere, William Mackay, Alexander McDougall, James Otis Jr., Benjamin Rush, Isaac Sears, Haym Solomon, James Swan, Charles Thomson, Thomas Young, Marinus Willett,Francis Akeley, and Oliver Wolcott. These men weren't the only participants in the Boston Tea Party. It is estimated that hundreds of people participated in the Boston Tea Party. Many people were in fear of getting caught so the majority of people remain anonymous. However, the known people that participated is approximately 116...
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...Have you ever imagined what it’d be like to live during the American Revolution? Well, at first it was peaceful, until the unfair taxation and fighting broke out. Included in this all are the following; The Navigation acts, The French and Indian war, Pontiac’s Rebellion and Proclamation of 1763, The sugar act, The stamp act, The Declaratory act, The Townsend act, The Boston massacre, The Boston tea party, And the Intolerable acts. It was a time of chaos for the colonists. The first thing that happened was the Navigation act. The Navigation act of 1660 Was the Navigation act that bad? Yes, yes it was. The Navigation act of 1660 was the first act passed on the colonies. It made it so colonists had to use English ships when they...
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...Essay #1 History The War of Independence was precipitated by various economic, political and social trends. The political trends emerged during the first half of the eighteenth century. The economic trends became readily apparent a decade before the American colonies rebelled against Britain. The social trends were best exemplified by implementation of the Quebec Act in 1774. A combination of all of these trends led to increasingly widespread resistance among the American colonies, which gave rise to rebellion followed ultimately by revolution. During the first half of the eighteenth century the political trends emerged. The Americans’ experience with government by actual representation caused extreme scepticism of British Parliamentary government claims to virtual representation. However, the most direct political confrontations during this period of time focused on the role of the governors. The governors were appointed by the king or the proprietor, and therefore the governors’ interests were directed towards their British patrons and not the American colonies which they represented. Governors exercised great power over the colonial assemblies. These contradictory political ties with the British empire did not prevent rapid expansion of British settlement by the middle of the eighteenth century. At the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, which culminated in British victory, a great patriotic devotion to the British empire spread among the...
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...Nuisance of an Act The Tea Act was a law passed by the Parliament on May 10 1773 that made it so the American colonists can only buy tea from British East India Company Tea because the company was going out of business and England decided they would help the company out. Britain lowered the price of the tea from the British East India Company Tea by so much that it was very inexpensive to colonists compared to everything else but the colonists were only able to buy from them. Most colonists viewed this as the “last straw” and were very irritated with the British. The colonists take this new act as more taxation without representation and this lead to The Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act is disliked by many colonist. Some colonists may even be thinking about ending all this taxation without...
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...The Boston Tea Party was an event, in 1773, where American colonists dressed as Native Americans stormed several cargo ships, and dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into the Boston harbor in protest of the tax on tea set by the English parliament. The immediate cause of the Boston Tea Party was the passage of the Tea Act, by the English government. This was the main cause, because it made the colonists feel like parliament was attempting to undermine their economy, by putting local tea companies out of business. But there were other smaller, but still important causes. One of these cases was the Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre was an act that had occurred three years prior. During this incident, a group of British soldiers opened...
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...years and see where we started. In 1765, the American colonies were still under the control of Great Britain, and the French and Indian war had just ended. Britain created the Stamp Act of 1765, this was the first direct tax from King George on the American Colonies. In response to the Stamp Act we see the Stamp Act congress form to petition King George. This is the first time we see colonist form together to petition the king of Britain. The Stamp Act congress won, King George repealed the Stamp Act the same year. In June of 1767 the English parliament passes the Townsend Acts, which placed a new set of taxes of american colonies. Taxing things such as everyday goods like paper an tea. These taxes lead to many colonist boycotting British goods. Following the Boston massacre,...
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...when a nation endured great obstacles for the dream of true freedom. A time when taxes where raised by a king from across the ocean, soldiers ordered to quarter homes without consent, and patriots dying against an inevitable outcome. A time when colonists believed in the right of revolution, where they had an obligation to revolt and become independent from their tyrannical rulers. Many battles were fought and many lives were lost while Great Britain attempted to suppress the colonists in an attempt to encroach the colonists’ rights and freedoms, and prevent self-governance. Turning back in time to one major benchmark in February of 1765, Parliament passed an attempt to proclaim governmental authority over the colonies with the Stamp Act. This new law required all colonial residents to pay a stamp tax on every printed paper, in an attempt to fill a massive debt that Great Britain was in following the Seven Years War. Colonists were enraged and quickly protested against the unfair taxes that affected every resident, becoming the first...
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...Morgan Nason History 103 (Bridge History) HW #13 Why did Parliament pass the Coercive Acts in 1774? On November 28, 1773, three ships had arrived in Boston, Massachusetts carrying over 90,000 pounds of tea. The boat had passed through customs and the tea had sat, unloaded, on the boat until December 16, 1773. On December 16, 1773, 100 – 150 men dressed up as Mohawk Indians boarded the ships and threw the tea into the harbor. This became widely known as the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party made England furious which convinced Parliament to pass the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable Acts consisted of five laws, the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Impartial Administration of Justice...
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...Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament, which the British referred to as the Coercive Acts, with which the British intended to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. The Congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade and drawing up a list of rights and grievances; in the end, they petitioned King George III for redress of those grievances. On this day in 1774, the First Continental Congress sends a respectful petition to King George III to inform his majesty that if it had not been for the acts of oppression forced upon the colonies by the British Parliament, the American people would be standing behind British rule....
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...The Boston Tea Party was the first of protests in the united states. The protesters dumped tea into the boston harbor from three different ships. There were to be 4 ships but the fourth one never can into the harbor. The word Bohea was commonly used as the slang term for tea. The word is also a name of tea which was the most type of tea that was dumped into the harbor. The act was a financial loss to the british. There were many different thing that went on before the the Boston Tea Party. The Protesters were not protesting a tax hike, but a corporate tax break. “The protesters who caffeinated Boston Harbor were railing against the Tea Act, which the British government enacted in the spring of 1773” said the History web page. George Washington was the one who organised the protest and also was the one who lead them to the ships. The act was very organizes not just by George Washington but by all the members of the party. The shipment of British East India Company tea the three ships delivered to Boston consisted of 240 chests of...
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...The British government had to pay back the money to the Dutch. The British government was already in debt and by the end of the war the debt was nearly doubled. The money the British government borrowed also had interest so the debt would keep increasing if not paid back immediately. A solution that the British government propose was to tax the colonies and they taxed the colonies through passing a set of policies and acts. These policies are the Sugar Act (1764), Stamp Act (1765), Declaratory Act (1765), The Townshend Act (1767), The Tea Act (1773), and the Intolerable Acts...
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...SUGAR ACT OF 1764: Increased the taxes on imported sugar, as well as, coffee, textiles, wines, and indigo to help fix debt caused by French and Indian War. The import of French wines and foreign rum was prohibited. CURRENCY ACT OF 1764: Stopped Americans from handing out legal tender paper money. STAMP ACT OF 1765: The first tax that Americans paid directly to England and not their local legislature. All printed materials such as newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, licenses, bills, almanacs, playing cards, and dice were taxed to cover costs of British military in America. QUARTERING ACT OF 1765: Colonists were forced to provide British soldiers with a place to sleep, war supplies, food, clothing, and whatever else the needed. DECLARATORY...
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...many events that lead up to this, such as the Proclamation of 1763 and the writs of assistance, But three very important events were the Townshend Acts, the Boston Tea Party and The Intolerable acts. These three events were central causes of the american revolution. The first of the the was the Townshend acts. After the French and Indian War, England was greatly in debt, and tried to tax the colonies, but the needed new taxes after the Stamp and Sugar acts were repealed....
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...Parliament, starting with the Sugar Act of 1764 and ending with the Intolerable Acts of 1774, gave almost every colonist a common grievance, expediting the process of colonial unity against British rule (Walton/Rockoff 2010, pp. 93-107). Joseph D. Reid, Jr., a professor in economics, concludes in his paper that “conflict over economic issues best explains the length, intensity of, and participation in protest by the colonists” (Reid 1978, pp. 81-100). English mercantilism explains why Parliament passed certain taxes for the colonies. The goal of mercantilism was to achieve power and wealth for the state by acquiring large amounts of specie, and the mercantilists wanted to use legislation to regulate the economy in a way that helped Britain more than the colonies (Walton/Rockoff 2010, pp. 93-107). The Navigation Acts of 1651 set the stage for the revolution to come almost century later, although the Navigation Acts themselves were not all bad. In fact, the colonists were some of the lightly taxes people in the world (Reid 1978, pp. 81-100). However, the acts that followed infuriated the colonists. After the repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765, Charles Townshend, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, the government department responsible for collecting taxes, passed the Townshend Acts, which imposed duties on tea, glass, paper, and tobacco, but most importantly imposed a customs board, undermining colonists’ self-rule. Organized boycotts led to the Boston Massacre, which led to the repeal...
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