...the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and the Intolerable Acts. Britain wanted to create colonies in what is now America and they were very successful. Britain had power over the colonies and used that to make unfair laws for the colonies to follow. The Seven year was caused Britain to go into great debt and put taxes on the colonists which caused the colonists to become angry with Parliament. The colonists protested which lead to the Boston Massacre, and after that the colonists caused an incident caused the Boston Tea Party where Britain replied with the intolerable acts. The Boston Massacre caused the colonists to be scared and angry with Parliament. “In 1770 Boston crackled with tension, a group of angry colonists confronted twelve red coats and threw objects and dares to shoot at them. One soldier was knocked over by a block of ice and yelled fire and killed five” (Boyer 144). Boston civilians were shot and killed by British soldiers and they were already not getting along. Boston and other colonies became scared of the British soldiers and...
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...those historical events unfolded prior to taking a stand and acting according to their beliefs. Samuel Adams may have used strategy one: analyzing a single statement for what is means by asking yourself if the statement makes sense and if so responding with a yes or no answer. Adams was not only an extremist but a political writer speaking to issues that directly affected colonies like the Stamp Act and tea distribution from East India. Both of these events affected many colonists in a negative way because the Stamp Act added taxation to certain products, while India tea imports, caused some colonists to lose money from their own tea sells. Adams would have had to ask himself why these acts where just or unjust by analyzing them individually in a literal sense. He publicly came to the conclusion that these acts were unjust because they both caused colonists to lose money and also put a damper on their personal values and liberty. Another strategy he may have used it number 3, which is when something that is presented as factual isn’t and therefore needs an explanation on why it can or can’t be validated. By evaluating and concluding in his writings that colonists should not be taxed without the proper representation to back up this very law. He successfully evaluated this situation for what it was, an illegal...
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...Matthew Smith March 2, 2014 History 2010-012 Defiance of Patriots Paper The Boston Tea Party was shaped by events that occurred inside and outside North America and had nontraditional actors; poverty in Bengal, pressure from New York and Philadelphia, Native Americans, and the youth all played roles in causing the tea protests. In Bengal the East India Company was administrating the country and their greed drove the country into poverty, hardship, and starvation. Pressure from Philadelphia and New York put on Boston to hold true to their non-importation agreement, including a ban on tea, helped motivate actions for the Boston Tea Party. The Native Americans played a nontraditional role for the protesters in Boston because of what they symbolized. The youth of Boston were another example of nontraditional actors that helped shape what the protests became. Boston faced many struggles as a town, from being heavily taxed to having their port shut down. Citizens of Boston never gave up the hope of freedom and they came together as a town to fight for what they thought was just.. The East India Company was in Bengal, today located in India, and they were administrating the colony for the British government on a charter granted to them. In the year 1769 not a single drop of rain fell, rice was 20-50 times higher the normal price, an estimated 1.2 million died, and citizens were driven into poverty, this was called the Fall of 1769. The East India Company was only in Bengal...
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...The Boston Tea Party was the first step into freedom. The Boston Tea Party caused by parliament's taxing without the colonists being represented. This resulted in harsh laws and punishments like the Coercive Acts also known as "the Intolerable Acts. The. Acts angered the colonists even more. Parliament and King George III thought that these punishments would bring order but, in the end they only brought rebellion. The colonists thought that the British government taxing them unfairly disrespected their rights as English citizens. One of the first unfair taxes was the "Sugar Act.' This placed a tax on molasses and sugar which are the main ingredient for Rum. Next, the "Stamp Act" was passed. This tax was placed on all legal documents or important forms. All the new taxes angered the colonists. Another tax was passed, it was called the "Tea Act" this was a tax on all tea. Britain also passed a new law allowing the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies. Tea merchants started to become worried about losing their business to the British East India company because of their cheap prices. To try to stay in business, Tea merchants started smuggling in tea to avoid being taxed. They...
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...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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...The Boston Tea Party was an event that took place in Boston, on December, 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party was an act of civil disobedience. The angry colonists just wanted their voice to be heard without hurting anyone. Did it work? Yes, indeed. The Boston Tea Party was caused by the angry colonists, who were mad at the king, who passed more taxes on them, and as a result there was intolerable acts. Tea was popular in the colonies that they often brewed tea twice a day. The colonists loved their tea. Then their king decided to pass the Tea Act. So then, the colonists start to boycott British goods. The Daughters of Liberty and Women Griffits led the boycott.The Tea Act was not the only tax he passed, there was Stamp Act, Townshend Act, and Quartering Act. But, it's not what I’m trying to cover here....
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...The Boston Tea Party was a turn point in the revolution and is still one of the most symbolizing acts done during the revolution. The Boston Tea Party was an event that happened in Boston because the tea had some taxes that were lowered but not removed. The Sons of Liberty were in charge of dumping over 300 boxes of tea in Boston Harbor. This was caused due to various reasons including the tax without representation issue in which the British were taxing the colonies without them having any representation in parliament. This book talks about various things that changed America in the 18th century, as suggested by the title. This book contains various fascinating events that are explained of the how, why, when and where of many important historical...
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...The Boston Tea Party was a protest that was made directly toward Great Britain from all the taxes Britain had been giving to them. King George III, when all the colonists were moving to the Americas King George saw this as an opportunity to get more payment and made outrages taxes against them. Taxes like the Stamp Act and the tax on sugar. But the one tax that made the colonists react was the Tea Tax. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere and the other leaders of the Sons of Liberty had planned how they were going to execute their plan and what they were to do. The Sons of Liberty were an underground group that had fought for the freedom of the colonists against the British rule. As the Sons of Liberty were having their meeting at the Old South Meeting...
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...The Boston Tea Party In 1773, the East India Company was dying. The American and Dutch smuggling business were slowly killing the company. The British had to do something fast, before the company collapsed entirely. This was known as the Tea Act of 1773. The Tea Act was basically a government bailout that reduced that amount of taxes the Company had to pay, thus in theory saving the company. This was a major blow to the American and Dutch smugglers, who depended on the high prices of the East India Company to sell their smuggled tea and make their living. Therefore, in protest, hundreds of Boston citizens boarded the ships Eleanor, the Beaver and the Dartmouth on December 16, 1773, and dumped 45 tons of tea into Boston Harbor. This event was later known 50 years later as the Boston Tea Party....
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...dissatisfactions, but others as well. They decided that things needed to change and they were willing to do that for themselves and others. They decided that if they wanted it done they had to do it themselves. Thomas and Samuel, along with many others, realized that the way things were being done was not benefiting them like it should have. They believed that somebody needed to do something to change it and it just so happened to be them. 2. Explain the importance of building a foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluating historical events such as the Boston Tea Party. First, you have to think about what you are looking for and you have to find the truth behind it all. Another words, you do not want to get any information mixed up or confused. Just because you think you know something does not mean it is true. You have to pay close attention to what you are doing because you need all the details before evaluating anything. Your opinion is just that, it has no truth to it and if you base historical events on your opinion, it will fall through. You must make sure you have...
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...Have you ever wondered why people fight for what they believe in even when it means they could get hurt or worse? Well, this is called civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is a refusal to obey rules or someone in authority. There are many examples of civil disobedience the Boston Tea Party and the singing revolution are only two. Civil disobedience brings the good people in the world together to fight for a change for the better. The Boston Tea Party happened as a result of Britain adding taxes to tea in America. The taxes caused people to start smuggling tea onto boats that came from Britain. Americans were furious about the taxes on the tea. They became even angrier when the smuggled tea started to cost more than the non-smuggled tea....
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...Hewes and the American Revolution In the years leading up to the American Revolution, the city of Boston became a hot bed of colonist rebellion against the British Government. The citizens in Boston, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, had become fed up with unjustified taxation levied against them by the British. The colonists of Boston also saw it to be problematic that the colonies were subject to British rule, but were not represented in Parliament. In the half-decade prior to the Revolutionary War, the city of Boston hosted two monumental events that rallied the colonists into the direction of independence; the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. A man named George Roberts Twelve Hewes had the honor of being able to witness and take direct involvement in both the Massacre and the Tea Party. George Roberts Twelve Hewes was born and raised in Massachusetts and saw the development of the Revolution from the perspective of an “everyday” colonist. He was born on August 25th, 1742. Hewes was a shoemaker by trade and was never able to amount an impressive net worth. If anything, it can be argued that Hewes was very much more poverty stricken than anything else. Money never seemed to influence Hewes’s actions; instead George Roberts Twelve Hewes was a man of principal and integrity. Prior to the Revolutionary War, Hewes participated in both the Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party. During the Revolutionary War, Hewes served as a Privateer and a member of the militia for the Thirteen...
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...web page o Read, watch, and listen to the media presented on the Boston Tea Party. o Write a paragraph of approximately 100 words for each section listed below. 1. Using the critical thinking skills you have gained so far and referring to the materials provided for this assignment, identify two possible strategies that Thomas Hutchinson or Samuel Adams likely used to develop and improve their thinking as those historical events unfolded prior to taking a stand and acting according to their beliefs. There are several skills that Thomas Hutchinson and Samuel Adams likely used to develop and improve their thinking skills. When they acted on their beliefs, they needed to be extremely creative in their thinking skills to motivate the others. Thinking ahead and planning was also essential. I also think that they used a lot of reasoning and assessing in order to get the proper information to get the support that they needed to fight back against taxes that they felt were unlawful. With the two men not seeing eye to eye on everything, they had to reason with one another in order to come up with a plan of action. 2. Explain the importance of building a foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluating historical events such as the Boston Tea Party. Building a foundation is very important for critical and creative thinking, especially when evaluating certain historical events such as the Boston Tea Party. The foundation is so important because without it, there is nothing...
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...formation, of what we see today as the United States. The American Revolution was a conflict between the thirteen British colonies in North America and their mother country Great Britain. The American Revolution began on April 19, 1775 and ended on September 3, 1783. There are several causes to how the American Revolution came about. Among these causes are The Stamp Act, The Townshend Acts, The Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party. The Stamp Act, which was passed in 1765, was Parliament’s first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the thirteen colonies. It was an act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, in the British occupied colonies. The main purpose of these taxes was to help Britain pay for the troops stationed in North America. Not only the British colonies in America, but even the British merchants and manufacturers opposed the act, and the exports to the colonies were threatened by colonial economic problems caused by the taxes The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed in January 1767, by the Britain Parliament. These acts primarily included the Revenue Act of 1767, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, the Indemnity Act and the New York Restraining Act. The sole purpose of this act was to raise revenue in the American colonies and establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax them. The Townshend Acts met with a huge resistance from the colonies, which prompted the occupation of Boston, by British...
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...In The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution, Alfred F. Young is a combination of a biography and the meaning of the term Tea Party. The biography is about a patriotic member of the Tea Party named George Robert Twelves Hewes. The next section of the book is an explanation of how things changed after the Tea Party. Overall, the book explains how Hewes became so famous, when the Tea Party received it’s name, the meaning of the name, and what it meant to the different social classes. George Robert Twelves Hewes was a shoemaker in Boston that was determined to help the colonies gain freedom from Britain. He took part in important events in Boston that led up to the Revolution (Young 33). Since Hewes was not a leader in the patriotic acts of the Revolution, he was quickly forgotten. On July 4, 1826, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, both patriotic leaders in the Revolution, died (Young 140). “Their deaths confirmed the popular sense that the country was losing its last links with the revolutionary generation” (Young 141). In an attempt to keep the memory of the Revolution alive, Hewes went back to Boston for a Fourth of July celebration that commemorated veterans of the Revolution (Young 143). As a result, Hewes was finally able to get the recognition and honor that he deserved. The Tea Party was not called a...
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