Boston Tea Party

To protest very high new taxes on tea being imported from England, and because British law didn't allow non-British ships to import tea.

George Washington captured Boston by doing absolutely nothing. He placed his army above the city. The British did not know which route he would follow for his attack. So one night they got on boats and sailed away.

He also used subterfuge. He had some cannon aimed at the city. He had even more fake cannon carved from wood aimed at the city. The British thought he had far more artillery than he actually possessed.

Before the Boston Tea Party were the taxes of the colonial people. The saying "taxation without representation" comes from this time period. The colonial americans were paying an incredibly high amount of taxes BUT they were not allowed to have a representative in parliament. There were taxes on everything, paper, tea, etc. When tea started being taxed, the colonists had enough, so they dumped it overboard in the act called the Boston Tea Party.

They made the Intolerable Acts with four rules The first rule was or is "Boston Harbor was closed until Boston paid for the ruined tea. 2. Massachusetts charter was canceled. The governor decided if and when the legislature could meet. 3. Royal officials accused of crimes were sent to Britain for trial.This let them face a more friendly judge and jury. 4. General Thomas Gage became the new governor f Massachusetts."

As Boston was a rather revolutionary city (as opposed to New York which was a more loyalist city), many colonists in Boston saw the Boston Tea Party as a demonstration that British taxation without representation was a greater issue to them than the cost savings of purchasing the tea with taxes (even with taxes, British tea was less expensive). Also it showed that the Bostonians took their political concerns seriously.

Hancock paid and organized it and had Samuel Adams organize the men.They didn't dress up. This is part of the fable. The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the lowering of the cost of the British tea by the government and the East India tea company who had gotten a bail out from the crown in 1773. The smugglers in the colonies found the Dutch tea that they sold was higher in price than the British tea, so they staged the Boston Tea Party and others in harbors in the colonies ( Hamilton was one of the largest smugglers in the colonies and a founding member of the Son's of Liberty). The cost of tea also went as far back as the Navigation Acts and the restricting of trade to and from the colonies passed from 1650-1733. Tea was also taxed in 1767 in the Townsend Acts.

On the 16th December 1773 the Boston tea party occurred.

not exactly but things were built on it that started it but the tea tax was a big key point

There were a variety of different colonist reactions to the events of the Boston Tea Party.

1) Positive: As Boston was a rather revolutionary city (as opposed to New York which was a more loyalist city), many colonists in Boston saw the Boston Tea Party as a demonstration that British taxation without representation was a greater issue to them than the cost savings of purchasing the tea with taxes (even with taxes, British tea was less expensive). Also it showed that the Bostonians took their concerns seriously and the British took note.

2) Negative: Loyalists in Boston were dismayed by what they saw as a childish action. Instead of paying the lowest taxes in the entire British Empire, their fellow colonists felt the urge to act out. It bears noting that the taxes were raised to pay off debts incurred during the Seven Years War (also known as the French and Indian War) that helped to defend the American colonies. Loyalist sentiment was further angered because Loyalists knew that the British would retaliate for the act, which they did with the Intolerable and Townshend Acts in addition to making the colonists pay for the tea they spilled.

3) Neutral: This opinion came from those who could either see both the good and the bad or just did not care enough to involve themselves in politics. (Funny as it might seem, a number of people just wanted to make an honest wage and sleep with their spouses.)

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By not letting them have town meetings with out the Crown's permission. In addition, the British closed the port of Boston and began to enforce new laws known as the "Coercive Acts".

The Boston Tea Party was an act of self-determination by British colonists against a tyrannical monarchy 3,000 miles away. Present day "tea parties" are the acts of a handful of cranky Americans who don't like the way the last election went.

Paul Revere had nothing to do with the Boston Tea party and it happened in 1773 (this is 2 years before Revere comes into the narrative of the revolution). The tea party was organized to save American smugglers from the ruin of competing with English tea. The Dutch tea they sold had been cheaper because of the added taxes on the tea, but the English government gave a bail out to the East India Company and allowed it to lower the taxes on tea. This made it less than what the smugglers sold their tea for. The idea that people didn't want to pay taxes without representation is also a fallacy. In Virgina only 6% of the male adult white population owned enough land to be entitled to vote. In Mass it was only 16% and only a fourth actually voted. The tea party, at the time, was also not very popular among the men who were patriots. Washington was upset when he heard about the event. Paul Revere is associated with the ride to warn the men in Concord that the British were on the march to arrest them. The only problem with this story is that Revere did NOT finish the ride. He was arrested before he made the 20 miles from Boston to Concord by the British patrol and the ride was completed by Dr. Samuel Prescott who just happened to come along and see what was happening. This all took place on April 18, 1775. The only reason we think that Revere did the ride warning "the British are coming" is due to a poem called the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere written by Longfellow in 1861 on the eve of the civil war. He was trying to remind people of their history . The real hero is a 23 year old named Israel Bissell who rode across 3 states and over 300 miles to warn people. He rode so hard his horse died under him, but I guess Bissell doesn't rhyme as well as Revere.

The Coercive Acts which were called The "Intolerable Acts." by the colonists. The first: Boston Port bill, closed the port of Boston, Administration of Justice Act, The Massachusetts Government Act, Quartering Act, The Quebec Act.

The British Parliament was taxing the colonists more that the British citizens because they weren't British anymore. The colonists didn't think that was fair and so they decided to get revenge by dumping the British tea into the harbor.

They didn't dress up. This is part of the fable. The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the lowering of the cost of the British tea by the government and the East India tea company who had gotten a bail out from the crown in 1773. The smugglers in the colonies found the Dutch tea that they sold was higher in price than the British tea, so they staged the Boston Tea Party and others in harbors in the colonies ( Hamilton was one of the largest smugglers in the colonies and a founding member of the Son's of Liberty). The cost of tea also went as far back as the Navigation Acts and the restricting of trade to and from the colonies passed from 1650-1733. Tea was also taxed in 1767 in the Townsend Acts.

He created the Intolerable Acts which: 1. closed Boston Harbor so food couldn't get in or out 2. said colonists couldn't hold town meetings without government approval 3. reinforced the New Quartering Act so colonists HAD to house British troops

in about three hours from time we went on board , we had thrown every tea chest we could find overboard

we are marry, in an undertone,at the idea of so large for the fishes.

patriaism is as much a virtue as justice, and is necessary for the support of seciaties as natural

it does not require a majority to prevalbut rather an rote, tireless minority keen to set bush fire in peoples minds

The Boston Tea Party took place in Boston Harbor. The whole event was planned by "The Sons of Liberty" which was a group in Boston made up of some of the most famous patriots in the revolution. "The Sons of Liberty" and other patriots dressed up as Native Americans and dumped all of Britain's high-taxed tea into the harbor. FUN FACTS: The captain of the ship gave the keys to the patriots as long as they cleaned up the ship afterwerds.

because they wanted to show King George the thied that they had enough of the tea tax, and that they wouldn't pay such a beserk tax even though it was their favorite drink of all times. I hope this will help you.=)

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The Stamp Act (1765) affected all of the American colonies by taxing paper goods, which had to have a revenue stampaffixed. This wa a direct tax that the colonists protested as being enacted without their representation or benefit.

They didn't dress up. This is part of the fable. The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the lowering of the cost of the British tea by the government and the East India tea company who had gotten a bail out from the crown in 1773. The smugglers in the colonies found the Dutch tea that they sold was higher in price than the British tea, so they staged the Boston Tea Party and others in harbors in the colonies ( Hamilton was one of the largest smugglers in the colonies and a founding member of the Son's of Liberty). The cost of tea also went as far back as the Navigation Acts and the restricting of trade to and from the colonies passed from 1650-1733. Tea was also taxed in 1767 in the Townsend Acts.