...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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...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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...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 American Revolution was a political upheaval by the thirteen American colonies. The thirteen colonies wanted to break away from the British government and form their own independent government. The American Revolutionary War was a result of the colonies being fed up with the laws being passed upon them and how they were being treated by the British government. There were many events that led up to the colonies wanting to break from the British government. Some of the events that led to this uprising, to only name a few, included The French and Indian War (part of the Seven Years’ War), the Boston Tea Party, and the Boston Massacre. There were also many individuals that helped cause the revolution and there were those that helped lead the colonists in their victorious separation from the British government. The French and Indian War was the start of the colonists beginning to become fed up with how the British government was governing them. The war resulted in the British gaining more land in North America, but it also resulted in the British government becoming more demanding and more controlling when it came to the American colonists and their lives (Hewitt and Lawson, 131). During this war, it did not look like the British were going to win. They lost many wars in North America. And when it looked like France would win this war, the British government put a new person in charge of their war efforts, William Pitt. Pitt placed more soldiers and more weapons in North America...
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...To understand where our government is at today we must first step back over 200 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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...taxes on colonists in America because of the damage of the French and Indian War to the British. There were laws that were meant for Great Britain to get money from the colonists which were known as the Sugar Act and Stamp Act, ___ the colonists did not like the laws. Since both colonies wanted different things this led to the Boston Massacre. After a couple of years the Boston Party happened and the Parliament passed the Coercive Acts which led to the Revolution war. The British gained lots of territory in North America from the French and Indian war but it also put them in debt so they hoped to recover by taxing the colonist. So they raised money by passing the Sugar Act and Stamp Act onto American colonist. The sugar act was used helped the parliament restock the Treasury….. This act placed taxes on sugar imported from the West Indies. However...
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...stamp act – sons of liberty – tar and feathers- stamp act congress(new york) came up with no taxation without representations inspired from Daniel Delaney “considerations” - b. The colonists justified their rebellion against the government based on the philosophy of John Lock, in which he wrote that the creation of government was formed in order to protect the natural rights granted to each human of life, liberty, and property. He therefore claimed that if the government violates these rights, the citizens have the right to revolt and claim what is theirs. Well read – drew from John Lock – glorious revolution =parlemant exiles stuarts and invited new dynasty - c. The colonist feared the pressures of a free standing army present and the monarchal environment it would create. Delcloratory act – colonists heckles soldiers leading to boston massacre – first black marder – john adams defends and wins 2. Briefly discuss the significance of all of the following: the Tea Act, the Boston Tea Party, the Coercive Acts, The First Continental Congress. - Tea act not repealed – merchents no longer make money – sons of liberty responds with boston tea party THE TEA ACT The Tea Act was enacted by the parliament was a method of bailing out the East India Tea Company. However, the act not only forced the colonist to buy what they have boycotted, but it also limited the merchants who were able to buy and sell it. THE BOSTON TEA PARTY In reaction to these acts of favoritism...
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...The Effect of Early Colonial Legislation The early settlers in the New World were subject to many different laws and acts of legislation passed by the British government. Most of which were meant to help the King and England rather than support the colonies ability to be a free and self-governing people. Some of the legislation like the Stamp Act was passed to help England recoup its losses from the French Indian War. Although some like the Coercive Act contained a series of legislative tactics meant to punish colonists for going against or acting against the King or the mother land. Both of these acts were purposeful and against the colonists and only for the benefit of England. The French and Indian War caused the British government to go into a tremendous amount of debt. This debt had to be recovered somehow. So parliament decided that they would create a tax on the colonies to help recover some of the money lost. The Stamp Act was the British Parliaments attempt to take governmental authority over the colonies. The Stamp Act created a tax or duty on different types of documents printed on paper including “… legal documents, business papers, licenses, pamphlets, newspapers, almanacs, printed sermons, playing cards, and dice” (Reich, 2011 Ch. 25 Para 17). For instance the act stated that any piece of parchment that was “…engrossed, written, or printed, any declaration, plea, replication, rejoinder, demurrer or other pleading, or any copy thereof; in any court of law within...
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...resolve pressing issues. The colonies relinquished in governing themselves and they did not want to allow Britain to govern them again. Thus, they formed a document called the Declaration of Independence to claim themselves to be their own country. Proclamation of Independence Three acts were given to the colonists after the British Parliament passed them: the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act,...
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...The political protest known as the Boston Tea Party took place on the evening of December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts. The political protest was a demonstration of rebellion orchestrated by the Sons of Liberty in order to protest the Tea Act. The royal governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, allowed three ships- The Dartmouth, The Eleanor, and The Beaver- to enter the Boston Harbor. The ships carried tea to sell to the colonists on behalf of the British East India Company. Many Boston colonists demanded that the tea is returned to England, including Samuel Adams, who tried to persuade the governor to accept this approach, but to no avail. However, before the tea could be purchased by the colonists, radical protesters of the Tea...
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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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...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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...not allowed to cross it Huge war debt after the French and Indian War Resurgence of Imperialism 1. The Sugar Act (1764) stipulated that if Americans purchased non-English sugar (especially Dutch), you would have to pay an extra tax (resemblance to the Navigation Acts) 2. The Stamp Act (1765) an act that required you to place a stamp on any type you purchased paper, or fill out a form, marriage license, etc. you would have to purchase stamps psychological- visible reminder that they were colonists George Grenville- pushed for the Stamp Act Three Types of Responses to the Stamp Act 1. Emotional a. Sons of Liberty 2. Political (Constitutional) a. Stamp Act Congress (first unified Congress among colonists) 9 of 13 colonies meet in New York b. Virtual Representation c. Declaration of Rights and Grievances “virtual representation we do not accept” 3. Economic a. Non-importation movement (stop buying British goods) b. Daughters of Liberty (filling the gap of things that do not come in) Stamp Act Repealed (1766) Declaratory Act (1766) (passed on the same day as the Stamp Act Repeal) (Parliament has the right to “bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever”) Quartering Act (1765) required Americans to accommodate British troops, not necessarily in your home, but on your property and you must provide them with food if need be Townshend Acts (1767) Charles Townshend- head on the x-checker, pushed through Parliament Placed a built-in tax on basic goods...
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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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...on items like stamps and tea. Because of this, the colonists revolted, and in 1773, the event we now know as the Boston Tea Party occurred. Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty, an organization of leaders, politicians and members, boarded three British ships after sundown. Some were hesitant as they feared the law and whether or not they...
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