Boston Tea Party

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•The Boston Tea Party was considered successful and a failure because the king lowered taxes but right after it started a war.

December 16, 1773 Hope this is what you meant♥

They did. 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.

tax burden on common people

It didn't change very much. He saw the colonies as if they were small children having a temper tantrum. The tea party happened in 1773 and three years later the Declaration of Independence happened, so there is a time different between one event and the other. The breaking point for the king was Bunker Hill. After Bunker Hill he could see that the colonies were in rebellion.

They raised the tax on tea for the colonies shipped in from India. What most people do not know is that the tax for tea shipped in from India was higher than the tax shipped to England even though England is closer than the Americas.

since I was there 200 years ago, I know the exact time.... it happened at night time and I saw lots of people throw tea on December 17th, 1773....like c'mon....who would know the exact time... all the people who were there are DEAD.

I suspect the notorious John Hancock. He was a big-time tea smuggler and had a lot to lose under the new legislation which allowed the British East India company to bring tea into the American colonies tax-free. He was also suspected by the British authorities of illegal activity and had narrowly escaped from one criminal charge.

Because the British took away all the taxes except the one on tea, this did not satisfy the Patriots that is why the Patriots dressed as mohawk indians and dumped 342 crates of tea into Boston Harbor.

There were three ships that were raided during the Boston Tea Party: the Dartmouth, the Eleanor and the Beaver. It is rarely mentioned that the ships were all American ships; only the tea belonged to the East India Tea Company.

she died from stress of giving birth

King George didn't punish the colonists,the parliament did.

He was the brain trust...he was the greatest son of liberty that was ever known. He was also a ninja and totally kill everyone he saw. He was an amazing kicker and in fact kicked the tea into Boston Harbor with ease. He also had a dog named Number 2.

Britain was very upset they beat them up with brooms

1) We were under Britain / United Kingdom rule back then

2) The people here were pissed cause Britain was taxing us on everything and not representing us properly back in Britain.

So basically they were taking our tax dollars and not doing anything for us. Kind of like how our government operates now except they were taking even less back then.

The Sons of Liberty. They were originally started by many people, including Samuel Adams.

well the Indians

because the Indians didnt want to pay the taxes so they dumped the tea and it made them furious i gyuss

Participants in the tea party destroyed 340 chests of tea on the night of December 16, 1773. According to Charles Bahne, author of The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail, this amounted to more than 46 tons of tea leaves. Such an amount could have brewed 18,523,000 cups of tea! The East India Company reported losses of £9,659 after the Boston Tea Party. This would amount to a million dollars in today's money!

They destroyed the tea by dumping it in Boston Harbor.

The King closed the harbor because of the Boston tea party. One observer watched the British man of war ships come into the harbor and commented that “ there were so many it looked like London was arriving.” The king sent over 2000 troops into Boston.