...examine the events and issues surrounding the Boston Tea Party. The intention of the research will be to set the overall order of issues that emerged and establish the political context in which the Tea Party would take place, and then to discuss the impact of the incident on the colonies, that would ultimately lead to the Revolutionary War. Understanding the importance of the Boston Tea Party cannot be obtained without an understanding of the issues and events that preceded it. The Party, which occurred in 1773, had its origins several years earlier, in the wake of the French and Indian War, which ended in 1763. In 1766, Parliament passed the Quartering Act, which provided for "billeting, provisioning and discipline of British forces, requiring colonial assemblies to provide barracks and supplies such as candles, fuel, vinegar, beer and salt for the regulars, costs of the Army in America at the 'dictate' of Parliament" (Tuchman 167). Further to this point, the Seven Years' War was over; why the need for such a large standing army in America? This first Quartering Act was, however, obeyed in general terms, and even partly rescinded as to enforcement (182), until other Parliamentary measures pointed up colonists' feeling of oppression. By 1767, the Stamp Act had been passed, and then revoked in the face of an American boycott of covered goods. In 1767, the Townshend Acts legalized import duties on "glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea." The stated resolution of these duties...
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...which can be difficult if distracted by emotions. The second one I think they may have used would have been Summarizing. Summarizing can help a person visualize all key elements. Samuel Adams may have used an analytical process. He assessed both sides of the issue and all consequences of their actions before he planned what he would do. Thomas Hutchinson most likely weighed the pros and cons in order to increase trade for the colonies and placing them in a better position economically. 2. Explain the importance of building a foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluating historical events such as the Boston Tea Party. It is important to build up a foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluation any situation historical or not. Being able to think critically and creatively when evaluating a historic event such as the Boston Tea Party is very important and helpful. It allows you to imagine yourself in the shoes of the people involved, able to think, feel, and react the way they might have. In addition, you can...
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...Process in the United States [The Boston Tea Party] Student: Arleta Dunlap Course: POS 2311-05 American National Government Semester: Fall, 2011 Professor: Dr. Mordu Serry-Kamal Institution: Winston-Salem State University Date: November 28, 2011 I. Introduction “Tea Party Myths” is an article about the event that took place on December 16, 1773 in Boston, Massachusetts. It refers to a few different misconceptions or “myths” about the event, and discusses the accurate facts of that historic day. The author of the article is Ray Raphael. The author of this article has advanced because he clearly points out the facts of the Boston Tea Party that many people do not know. There are so many misinterpretations of the event, and he pointed them out with accuracy. II. Literature Review The author is trying to make three specific points regarding misconceptions of the Boston Tea Party, as well as make a few factual points about the event in general. The first myth that Raphael referred to was that the whole event began because of higher taxes on tea. Tea was a major commodity at that time and it is believed by some that the colonist rebelled due to these taxes that were implemented. The truth of the matter is that there was actually a tax break for the colonists. The author states that the issue was not a rise in taxes, but the fact that the colonists had no part in the decision making. The author also corrected the idea that the tea taxes were a heavy burden on the...
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...The Boston Tea Party was a colonial revolt against exploiting laws imposed by the British in 1773. The colonists believed that Britain had no right to virtually represent them and tax them without full representation. The American colonists embodied the transcendentalist ideas of writer Henry David Thoreau in the belief that a law that is not just should be violated. Through civil disobedience, the colonists brought a greater awareness to their displeasure with British taxes, and inadvertently helped to separate from Britain to form the United States. In the early 17th century, thousands of British natives sailed across the Atlantic ocean and landed in various places throughout the Eastern coastline of America. Men were given charters of...
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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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...Everyone is taught to assume the Boston Tea Party was just an act of patriotism, but it was in fact terrorism. It was terrorism for three reasons. The property sabotage or hijacking was intended to bring to attention the American colonists and they had weapons with them. Although many others would be on the fence, we have evidence as to how it indeed was an act of terrorism. The Boston Tea Party has its roots in the Tea Act of 1773. The Boston Tea Party was served as a protest against taxation. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw crates of tea overboard. No one was reported injured in the attack, but valuable merchandise was destroyed; therefore, it was an act of terrorism. The colonists hijacked the boats with intentions to bring to attention the problems that they were facing in the new world. They destroyed valuable merchandise by stealing tea and dumping it into the Boston harbor. The colonists dressed in disguises and dumped 342 crates of tea into the Boston harbor. They did this because they were protesting taxation against the the British. Hijacking is thought to be an act of terrorism, but that is not all that the colonists did to let the Boston Tea party be considered an act of terrorism. Along with hijacking the boats, the colonists had weapons on them. The colonists not only stole ruined valuable merchandise and vandalized the boats on the Boston harbor, but they also had weapons...
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...of American colonists, it riled up the colonists and led to many major acts and events such as the Intolerable Acts, which caused the most unrest in the colonies and led to the birth of the American Revolution. At this time, the British were outraged by the colonist's behavior and responded to the Boston Tea Party that took place in 1773 in Boston, Massachusetts and passed the Intolerable Acts as a punishment for the colonists. The Boston Tea party was a protest against the Tea Act; the Sons of Liberty had dressed as Natives and raided English boats to dump chests of tea into the harbor. To begin with, the British hoped to coerce the colonists to pay them back for the loss of tea, until then the...
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...The Boston Tea Party, Declaration of Independence, and Katsushika Hokusai’s art, The Great Wave, were three of the greatest outcomes during the time period when the United States was just being found. The significance of the Boston Tea Party, The Declaration of Independence, and The Great Wave and their impact on society today will be discussed in this course paper. The Boston Tea Party is often referred to by John Adams as “The destruction of the Tea in Boston” (Boston Tea Party Facts, American Revolution). The Bosten Tea Party was a political protests by the Sons of Liberty in Boston on December 16, 1773. This act served as a protest against taxation. The colonists believed that they were being unfairly taxed by the British to...
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...“ The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American!” Quoted Patrick Henry after The Boston Tea Party. This taxing tea rallied many Americans to fight for freedom. The colonists refused to pay the taxes on tea. Yet there was another Tea Party the night after the first one, that rallied Americans even more. King George the third wanted to tax the tea. King George wanted to tax the tea because, the tea was not getting sold, so they lowered the prices. After they lowered the prices no one was still really buying the tea so that’s when King George the third wanted to tax the tea. Although The Sons of Liberty was the group who organized The Boston Tea Party, but didn’t want people to know who they were, they disguised their group as the Mohawk Indians. The Boston Tea party happened at the intersection of Congress and Purdrose Street in Boston....
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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 Would you like a cup of tea? Well you can’t have one. The night of December 16, 1773 was a symbolic night. The British had been raising taxes for a while and this made the colonies furious. Finally they had enough, and they raided some British trading ships full of tea. This statement made a definite impact in the colonies and British societies. We now call this event the Boston Tea Party. We can look at this event in three sections: What events lead up to the Boston Tea Party, what the tea party actually was, and what happened after the Tea Party. Many events contributed to this outburst from the colonies. It all started with a war between France and Britain, the French and Indian War. The war left Britain in need of money to pay for all of the supplies they used in war. The colonies had been helped by Britain's victory against France, so the British...
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...Things that you can know about the Boston Tea party Cool Causes The Causes of the Boston Tea Party was the Tea Act. The Tea Act lead to the Boston Tea Party because the colonists did not like the tax on tea, so Samuel Adams and the Sons Of Liberty snuck onto 3 ships to end the disaster of taxes! The Colonists did not think that the Tea act was fair, so they had the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party itself On a night of December 15, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded 3 ships unattended armed with a variety of axes, dressed up as Mohawk Indians. In a time of 3 hours, 340 tea crates that weighed as much as 92,000 lbs, were broken and thrown into the Boston Harbor. Roughly, all this destruction costed £9,659 in British currency....
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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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...plish, splash, splosh then down into the Boston Harbor went 342 chests of tea then everybody there had fled from the seen. The Boston Tea Party was planned out precisely by the Sons of Liberty who were against the British. In 1773 the Boston Tea Party was the colonists who were protesting against the British tea tax by dumping tea into the Boston Harbor, and most of the consequences were severe. The Boston Tea Party was an important event that had led up to the Revolutionary War. The Boston Tea Party all began on December 16, in the year of 1773 when the British were making the colonists pay a tea tax, and the colonists did not like that at all. Even though the British’s tea was super cheap and the colonists could easily by this without using...
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...Boston Tea Party The Boston tea party is an event in which the American colonist protested against the British parliament right to raise taxes. The Boston Tea party occurred on december 16, 1773 in Boston Harbor. On this date Samuel Adams and the sons of liberty along with a group of angry colonists dressed up as native americans boarded three of the british merchant ships. Tired of the british taxes the colonist wanted to send a message to the british and destroyed the merchandise. In this case over 300 chest of tea by throwing to the sea. The reason that cause this event was the taxation on many british products especially tea for over thirteen years. The event is know as The boston tea party now and it lead to the American Revolution. Stamp Act The stamp act was a law passed by the british parliament on the colonies that took place march 22,...
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