Boston Tea Party

A venue in Boston MA from late 60's to early 70's, at first on Berkeley Street and mostly on Lansdowne Street. Later the site became 15 Lansdowne Street, a disco, and other incarnations until now, when it is called Avalon. In town, it was the equivalent of the Fillmore theatres as a venue for really big acts, who could have played at the Garden, but went to the Tea Party for the atmosphere. (I saw the Greatful Dead, Jethro Tull, and Johnny Winter there.)

The first Boston Tea Party is the one we learn about in all of the history books at school. It occured on December 16, 1773, and involved a group of patriots disguised as native Americans. However, there was a second Boston Tea Party. It occured four months later, on March 7, 1774. Sixteen more containers of tea were thrown into the harbor. Compared to the 342 (90,000 pounds) of tea thrown over the first time, it was a much smaller incident. It is generally much more difficult to find information on the second tea party specifically. It is usually briefly mentioned in conjunction with articles on the Boston Port Act.

There are some bits of information at the related link(s) below.

Approximately 342 chests of tea were dumped overboard during the Boston Tea Party.

The main conflict of the Boston Tea Party was the imposition of tea taxes by the British government on the American colonies without their representation or consent. The colonists believed that this violated their rights and liberties as British subjects. Additionally, there was a conflict between the American colonists and the British East India Company, which the colonists saw as an unfair monopoly that threatened their economic interests.

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.

Before we comments, let's point out that events like the Boston Tea Party, while we feel all warm and fuzzy patriotism when they are mentioned, were terrorist acts against the then legal government.

Okay, despite being a terrorist act, the BTP was largely benign, in that no one was harmed. It made a statement, crudely, but effectively. While it did not singlehandedly establish the United States as a sovereign nation, it was one of the events that helped to build a consensus among the colonists that did make freedom from the English crown possible.

The Boston Tea Party was planned at the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston, Massachusetts. It was a popular meeting place for the Sons of Liberty, the group behind the protest against the British Tea Act in 1773.

It wasn't either. It wasn't a political party with an ideology, it was a protest against what the American colonists saw as unlawful taxation of tea. It should also be noted that politics in the 1770's didn't function on the same liberal-conservative scale that we know today.

Because they were outraged that England MADE the colonist buy all their tea from the English and British, and this was a way they could express how they felt. So when the ship landed on the dock with their tea and some people dressed up as Indians and threw out the crates of tea into the Boston Harbor, and to serve the colonist a punishment, they blocked the people with ships by the Boston Harbor!

The Boston Tea Party was primarily a protest against the Tea Act of 1773, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies, effectively undercutting local merchants. Additionally, it was a reaction to the broader issue of "taxation without representation," as colonists were frustrated by being taxed by a Parliament in which they had no elected representatives. This act of defiance became a significant catalyst for the American Revolution.

45 tons

the sugar act came first

The Boston Harbor was closed, and laws known as the Coercive or Intolerable acts were put in.

that he could stop world hunger

During the Stamp act, the colonists had to pay for a special paper and during the Sugar act they had to pay for the sugar. But during the Townshend act, the colonists had to pay for tea, paint, silk, glass, ink, and lead. Eventually this act was repealed, all but the tea tax which led to the Boston Tea Party.

The Sons of Liberty were smugglers in the colonies and yes they did use violence when they threw the tea into Boston harbor. The issue was an economic one for them. The British had lowered the tax on tea which made the smuggled Dutch tea higher in cost.

Colonists were sick and tired of paying taxes, especially on tea. So patriots dressed up as Indians and dumped about 340 chests off the ship and into the ocean. Also, The action was taken to prevent the payment of a British-imposed tax on tea and to protest the British monopoly of the colonial tea trade authorized by the Tea Act.

The Coercive Acts, passed in 1774, were designed to punish the Bostonians by closing the port until they paid for the tea they destroyed. These acts also took away Massachusetts's charter as a colony and made it harder to punish anyone in England's royal offices of crime. The Quebec Act of that same year took away colonial land and was one of the main causes of the Revolutionary War.

The King during the Boston Tea Party was King George the Third. Written as King George III.

No. The Tea Party movement is not nearly as organized as a political party, though some operatives of the Republican party are trying very hard to absorb the Tea Party's enthusiasm.

The whole ride fable comes from a Longfellow poem. This includes the signal.His most important thing is the flier of the Boston Massacre. He drew the event and it was mainly propaganda made to incite the colonist against the British.Revere was stopped by a British patrol and his horse taken. He never finished the ride, but two men did. They were named Prescott and Dawes. In 1861 Revere came to fame through a poem written by Longfellow on the eve of the civil war. He was trying to write about patriotism and remind people that they were one nation. This poem has been used as history and it isn't.

There is a source link below.

The colonists protested against the Tea Act all over the 13 original colonies. They unloaded tea on the docks of Charleston, South Carolina and let the tea rot. And in New York City and Philadelphia the colonists blocked off the tea ships from landing. So the Sons of Liberty prompted the Boston Tea Party.

There is no mention of snow in any historical records of note, and no period art shows snowfall in the depiction of the act.