Boston Tea Party

The result of the Tea Party was a complete shut down of the harbor. This meant that no goods came in and nothing went out. Troop levels were also increased and the city of Boston was under siege. When the war started the siege of Boston took it's toll. There was a shortage of food, wood ( church pews, barns, ships, trees were burned to keep homes warm). and other things were needed by the population. The British army was settled into Boston and it stayed this way until Lexington and Concord. This happen April 19 and in June the Battle of Bunker Hill took place. When Bunker Hill happened firewood was selling for 20.00 a cord and the population of Boston fled. There were only about 4,000 civilians under siege and at least half were women and children. Food remain scarce and dear. Even horse meat was bought at high prices and the troops plundered what they could find. Washington took command of the Americans on July 3. When the king heard of the outcome of Bunker Hill he stated "We must persist." The next major event in Boston will be the bombardment of Dorchester Heights by the British.

I'm pretty positive it was about 7,000. quite a few, i know that.

A group of indignant colonists, led by Samuel Adams , Paul Revere , and others, disguised as Native Americans.

Parliament passed a tax on tea that the colonists could not afford. So to try and cancel the tea act, they attacked three ships to get revenge and destroyed a lot of cargo{tea}.

In response to the Boston Tea Party incident, Parliament passed The Boston Port Act (one of the so-called "Intolerable Acts") closed the port of Boston until the East India Tea Company was repaid for the tea that had been dumped overboard (an amount of £90,000--probably equivalent to £10 million, today). Benjamin Franklin urged that the repayment be made and a group of New York merchants went to Lord North with an offer to pay for the losses, but they were turned down.

As the conflict escalated, the British abolished the Massachusetts provincial government, effectively placing the colony under military rule. General Gage, the military governor, ordered raids on the Americans' munitions stores at Concord and hostilities began. Following the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Americans surrounded Boston, preventing the British Army from any movement off the peninsula. After a lengthy stalemate, the British withdrew from Boston in March of 1776.

The rest, as they say, is history. To the best of my knowledge, the East India Tea Company was never repaid.

There is a tradition that John Crane was knocked out by a block and tackle during the Tea Party, the only significant accidental injury during the event. One retelling of this incident appears in Francis S. Drake's Tea Leaves, pp. cv-cvi: link.

However, the Tea Party has been so mythologized in American culture that a lot of families and local historians have passed down unfounded stories about it. Drake fell for some of those stories. He offers no citation for this anecdote. So I've been looking for an early source.

If I had to guess, I'd say the anecdote was accurate. It doesn't reflect particularly heroically on Crane or the companions who stashed him under wood shavings. Crane's activism in 1773 is documented, as is the presence at the Tea Party of several of his close associates. But I wish I could do more than guess.

J. L. Bell
www.boston1775.net

The British government had decided that the British colonists living in America should contribute to the cost of their protection from the Indians, the French and the Dutch. The Stamp Act of 1765 introduced new taxes on goods imported from Britain. The colonists objected on the grounds that they had no representation in the House of Commons. Taxation without representation. John Hancock and others attempted to evade the new taxes by smuggling tea from elsewhere and was arrested and charged (but let off). In response he organised a boycott of British tea. The British responded by allowing British merchants to sell tea duty free at half the price the American merchants charged. This cost Hancock and the other tea smugglers dearly. Eventually an armed gang calling itself the Sons of Liberty attacked the ships of the British East India Company in Boston harbour and destroyed a million dollars worth of tea. John Hancock was charged with High Treason.

John Adams was not part of the Boston Tea Party. The Adams that was involved was Samuel Adams, who may not have taken part but who worked to defend the actions of those involved afterward.

I think you're referring to the Boston Tea Party, in which the Sons of Liberty--dressed as Mohawk Indians--dumped British tea into Boston Harbor.

In Boston, the arrival of three tea ships ignited a furious reaction. The crisis came to a head on December 16, 1773 when as many as 7,000 agitated locals milled about the wharf where the ships were docked. A mass meeting at the Old South Meeting House that morning resolved that the tea ships should leave the harbor without payment of any duty. A committee was selected to take this message to the Customs House to force release of the ships out of the harbor. The Collector of Customs refused to allow the ships to leave without payment of the duty. Stalemate. The committee reported back to the mass meeting and a howl erupted from the meeting hall. It was now early evening and a group of about 200 men, some disguised as Indians, assembled on a near-by hill. Whopping war chants, the crowd marched two-by-two to the wharf, descended upon the three ships and dumped their offending cargos of tea into the harbor waters. I hope this helped you!

Yes. The Boston Tea Party was surrounded by planning. Sam Adams were in the town meeting when the Indians boarded the ships with the tea. The Indians finished throwing the tea into the harbor and returned to the dock long before the meeting ended. Something made Sam Adams, Paul Revere, and a host of others make that particular meeting go much longer than such meetings normally go.

nothing because there was no party!

James Oglethorpe founded Savannah, Georgia 40 years before the Boston Tea Party took place. He founded Savannah on February 12, 1733. The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773.

The Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts by the Patriots, came after the Boston Tea Party.

The port at Boston.

No. The important people of Boston were all in a long extended public meeting when the tea party occurred. They made it certain that the British officials knew they were not a part of the group throwing the tea overboard. The Indians had washed and changed their clothes long before the meeting was over.

A Young man by the name of Philip Vickers Fithian, a young recently graduated student from Princeton University was traveling home from a tutoring job for a wealthy plantation owner. He was coming home through Maryland for the holidays in October and found out about the Brig laden with tea that had been burned in the Harbor. Forward to Sunday December 18th 1774, word spread after Sunday worship service, of a certain shipment of tea hidden in Dan Bowen's warehouse. They apparently thought they could hold the tea until the heat of the tea tax blew over. They couldn't have been more wrong! On Friday December 23 1774 the Owner of the Gray Hound found out just how mad the residents of Greenwich, Shiloh and Roads town were! They dressed as Native A A man by the name of Philip Vickers Fithian, a young recently graduated student from Princeton University was traveling home from a tutoring job for a wealthy plantation owner. He was coming home through Maryland for the holidays in October and found out about the Brig laden with tea that had been burned in the Harbor. Forward to Sunday December 18th 1774, word spread after Sunday worship service, of a certain shipment of tea hidden in Dan Bowen's warehouse. They apparently thought they could hold the tea until the heat of the tea tax blew over. They couldn't have been more wrong! On Friday December 23 1774 the Owner of the Gray Hound found out just how mad the residents of Greenwich, Shiloh and Roads town were! They dressed as Native Americans. Dressed as Indians, as many as 40 of the local people (a group that was against the Townsend Act) all were thought to be young Whigs, set fire to the whole cargo of tea (Oolong) in the towns market Square. Although, none were identified most people believe that it was Philip Vickers Fithian ,Richard Howell Silas Newcomb,Joel Fithian Philips brother James Ewing ,Henry & Josiah Seeley as well as, Ebenezer and Timothy Elmer. As the journal of Philip Vickers Fithian read "Last night the Tea was by a number of persons' in disguise taken crates of tea out of the house & consumed with fire." Several times charges were brought against some of the lads, they were never able to get a conviction .The prosecution was fighting an up hill battle in a town with more sympathy for the tea burners than the tea owners. mericans. Dressed as Indians, as many as 40 of the local people (a group that was against the Townsend Act) all were thought to be young Whigs, set fire to the whole cargo of tea (Oolong) in the towns market Square. Although, none were identified most people believe that it was Philip Vickers Fithian ,Richard Howell Silas Newcomb,Joel Fithian Philips brother James Ewing ,Henry & Josiah Seeley as well as, Ebenezer and Timothy Elmer. As the journal of Philip Vickers Fithian read "Last night the Tea was by a number of persons' in disguise taken crates of tea out of the house & consumed with fire." Several times charges were brought against some of the lads, they were never able to get a conviction .The prosecution was fighting an up hill battle in a town with more sympathy for the tea burners than the tea owners. Richard E DeMarco Greenwich Tea Burners tea A Young man by the name of Philip Vickers Fithian, a young recently graduated student from Princeton University was traveling home from a tutoring job for a wealthy plantation owner. He was coming home through Maryland for the holidays in October and found out about the Brig laden with tea that had been burned in the Harbor. Forward to Sunday December 18th 1774, word spread after Sunday worship service, of a certain shipment of tea hidden in Dan Bowen's warehouse. They apparently thought they could hold the tea until the heat of the tea tax blew over. They couldn't have been more wrong! On Friday December 23 1774 the Owner of the Gray Hound found out just how mad the residents of Greenwich, Shiloh and Roads town were! They dressed as Native A A man by the name of Philip Vickers Fithian, a young recently graduated student from Princeton University was traveling home from a tutoring job for a wealthy plantation owner. He was coming home through Maryland for the holidays in October and found out about the Brig laden with tea that had been burned in the Harbor. Forward to Sunday December 18th 1774, word spread after Sunday worship service, of a certain shipment of tea hidden in Dan Bowen's warehouse. They apparently thought they could hold the tea until the heat of the tea tax blew over. They couldn't have been more wrong! On Friday December 23 1774 the Owner of the Gray Hound found out just how mad the residents of Greenwich, Shiloh and Roads town were! They dressed as Native Americans. Dressed as Indians, as many as 40 of the local people (a group that was against the Townsend Act) all were thought to be young Whigs, set fire to the whole cargo of tea (Oolong) in the towns market Square. Although, none were identified most people believe that it was Philip Vickers Fithian ,Richard Howell Silas Newcomb,Joel Fithian Philips brother James Ewing ,Henry & Josiah Seeley as well as, Ebenezer and Timothy Elmer. As the journal of Philip Vickers Fithian read "Last night the Tea was by a number of persons' in disguise taken crates of tea out of the house & consumed with fire." Several times charges were brought against some of the lads, they were never able to get a conviction .The prosecution was fighting an up hill battle in a town with more sympathy for the tea burners than the tea owners. mericans. Dressed as Indians, as many as 40 of the local people (a group that was against the Townsend Act) all were thought to be young Whigs, set fire to the whole cargo of tea (Oolong) in the towns market Square. Although, none were identified most people believe that it was Philip Vickers Fithian ,Richard Howell Silas Newcomb,Joel Fithian Philips brother James Ewing ,Henry & Josiah Seeley as well as, Ebenezer and Timothy Elmer. As the journal of Philip Vickers Fithian read "Last night the Tea was by a number of persons' in disguise taken crates of tea out of the house & consumed with fire." Several times charges were brought against some of the lads, they were never able to get a conviction .The prosecution was fighting an up hill battle in a town with more sympathy for the tea burners than the tea owners. Richard E DeMarco Greenwich Tea Burners tea

Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish Massachusetts.

violence was directed against representatives of distant authority

He lead the Boston tea party starting on December 16,1773. The east India tea company had a lot of tea they could not sell so they forced it on the Americans with a large tax thanks the King . Then America got really really angry and started smuggling tea .Then a ship came in and refused to be inspected leading to the tea party.

It was were people that fought in the war were buried. they also made a church here.

Depends what Battle you are talking about. When the war began, the American colonists did not have a regular army (also known as a "standing army"). Each colony had traditionally provided for its own defenses through the use of local militia. Continental army: Seeking to coordinate military efforts, the Continental Congress established (on paper) a regular army the Continental Army in June 1775, and appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief. The development of the Continental Army was always a work in progress, and Washington reluctantly augmented the regular troops with militia throughout the war. Conway Cabal, Newburgh Conspiracy, Charles Lee, William Smallwood, John Eager Howard, Daniel Brodhead, William Crawford, Edward Hand American militia: John Stark, William Whipple, Nicholas Herkimer Frontier: Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark International leaders allied with the American Patriots: Johann de Kalb, Tadeusz Kociuszko, Francisco de Miranda, Kazimierz Puaski, Friedrich von Steuben, Gilbert du Motier- marquis de La Fayette, John Paul Jones

The Boston Tea Party in 1773 galvanized colonial resistance against British taxation and policies, affecting Georgia as part of the broader American colonies. While Georgia was less involved in the immediate events, the protest heightened tensions between Britain and the colonies, prompting discussions about independence. Georgia's leaders began to align more closely with revolutionary sentiments, contributing to the growing movement for American independence. Ultimately, it united colonists across different regions, influencing Georgia's eventual participation in the Revolutionary War.