Revolution The 1773 Boston Tea Party was one of many significant events which lead to the declaration of an independent nation, America. This essay will discuss the causes and consequences of the Boston Tea Party including the expenses from the French-Indian war, the Boston Massacre, the Stamp and Sugar Acts of the 1760’s and the way the Boston Tea Party has affected many people at the time and remains to until this present day. An important long term cause of the Boston Tea Party was the sizeable…
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The Boston Tea Party ultimately led to the American Revolution. What occurred in the Boston Tea Party was a result of “taxation without representation.” Prior to the Boston Tea Party, the British and Americans had tension, building further more as disagreements emerged. Since the beginning of the 18th century, American colonies imported their tea. The British realized that a great amount of business was being made, they tried to make more money off of the tea trade by dramatically increasing the…
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Taxes Britain was in debt from the Seven Years’ War and looked to America to help pay for their debt. The stamp act was imposed to Americans by the British Empire in 1765. The stamp act was one of the many acts that were imposed to help raise revenues. American’s did not like the way they were represented in parliament “the issues of taxation and representation raised by the Stamp Act strained relations with the colonies to the point that, 10 years later, the colonists rose in armed rebellion against…
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Company Tea, weighing over 92,000 pounds, were destroyed by the Sons of Liberty (Labaree) for the sake of representation for taxation. This act of rebellion was not carried aimlessly, but was done to explicitly prove disagreement with the decisions of British Parliament to levy more taxes on the colonies. Action taken by the Sons of Liberty did not go unnoticed and the British decided to punish the colonist with a series of punitive laws, later named the Intolerable Acts (“The Intolerable Acts”). Eventually…
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to the strong revolt from the Americans are as follows; Boston Tea party, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quebec Act, Intolerable Acts, and Lexington and Concord. The Boston Tea Party was the destruction of tea in Boston. It was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. They were disguised as American Indians, and destroyed the entire supply of tea sent by the East India Company in defiance of the American boycott of tea carrying a tax the Americans had not authorized. The British…
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Intolerable Acts was an American label for the laws made by the British Parliament in 1744 in response to the Boston Tea Party. The acts made for the colonist made them have more anger towards Britain as they got passed. It was made to tighten government control of the colonies and prevent any kind of disorder but that plan also failed ,because it lead them to another problem - the American Revolution.The five acts were primarily directed to the people who lived in Massachusetts and Boston. They were…
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1770 · March 5 · The Boston Massacre leads to the death of five colonists · Boston had been living with British troops for close to two years before the sound of gunfire was heard. Ostensibly there at the request of Governor Bernard and Boston's customs commissioners to quell colonial lawlessness, the soldiers found they had very little to do. To the chagrin of the governor and commissioners, no danger materialized from which the soldiers might rescue them. Neither Governor Bernard nor his…
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Introduction The Boston Tea Party was a key event in American history that played a crucial role in the lead-up to the American Revolution. It was to protest the Tea Act of 1773 imposed by the British government, which gave a monopoly to the East India Company and allowed them to sell tea directly to colonists. This act angered many colonists, who saw it as a violation of their rights and an unfair advantage given to British merchants. As tensions rose, a group of colonists, disguised as Native Americans…
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and where we have no say, when we could be drinking our own fancy tea, trading our abundant resources and receiving the best goods in the world all day? We American’s are living under a government, that unless we declare independence from England, will continue to make unfair laws and policies and not protect our liberties. The colonies should declare independence from England because they have a tyrannical government, harsh trade acts, and a Parliament that doesn’t protect people’s rights. Independence…
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It was created in response to the Coercive Acts, also known as Intolerable Acts, from the British Parliament that was enforced in the American Colonies. Fifty-five representatives from the twelve out of thirteen colonies, with Georgia absent, were present at the Continental Congress to redress the colonial…
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