Pros And Cons Of The Boston Tea Party

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As Colonists began to fester with the idea of beginning a Revolution against the British and their rule, Colonists really began to think more freely about what they could be accomplishing with having complete freedom. Of course there were pro's as well as con's involved in this whole idea of a Revolution, as well as the fact that not every Colonist was for beginning a Revolution against the British.

The Boston Tea Party was a huge event in the lead up to the Revolution, as Colonists in Massachusetts were showing their clear distaste for these new tea taxes and more the fact that they had no representation in what they were going to be taxed on. It wasn't so much the tax itself that the Colonists disliked. The Colonists used this act as a way to show that they were not going to just be puppets of the British. They wanted to have a choice in what happened to them and they weren't getting that at the time. The Stamp Act of 1765 was another similar example of the Colonists saying that they weren't going to take the non-representation from the British and just let them try and make money off of them in all these stupid ways.
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The United States began a precedence with Britain that they were not going to take any garbage from them whatsoever. People like Thomas Paine, who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense, made it CLEAR to Britain how a good majority of people felt in the Colonies and it struck a chord with them for sure. We have CONTINUEDarrow-10x10.png to take this kind of stance to this very day in Americas as we don't take anything from anyone that is not our ally. Canada never took that kind of approach with their independence and it still shows to this day as Canada is a powerful country, but is not the stubborn and difficult nation that the US