A Revolutionary Environment: The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party was a protest of Massachusetts colonists that were masked or disguised as Mohawks in 1733. The Boston Tea Party was led by Samuel Adams who was against the Tea Act and was also against taxing. The Tea Act was passed by the British Parliament, it was actually the duty to export tea overboard. The British Parliament didn’t like how they tipped 342 crates of tea into the Boston harbor and that’s what happened in the Boston Tea

On 1773 three years later from the boston tea party Lord North thought the Boston tea party went too far and king George agreed. So they put a new law into place that limited the colonists and what they could do. This happened because the colonists threw taxed tea into the harbor because it was taxation without representation.This helped start the develop the Revolutionary war.

It was on December 1773 when American Soldiers dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor, however there were many events that led up to this event, known as the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party caused an uproar among the colonists of Boston directed at the English soldiers, and this was one of the primary causes of the American Revolution. There was a series of laws and acts passed in hopes to threaten the colonists and their chance at a self-government. The Proclamation of 1763 was passed by King George, and it blocked American travelers from traveling west of the Appalachian Mountains.(Yanak). In 1764, the Sugar Act was passed that put a tax on sugar and molasses. The colonists would smuggle the goods

The settlers were furious with the laws that the British were giving them, because they were limiting the power the colonist had. The Proclamation of 1763 made a line saying that they couldn’t past the Appalachian Mountains so the settlers can be protected from the savages they called Indians, but they were really trying to protect the Indians from the settlers. Just so the British can profit from the trade of fur. Which started the fuel of anger the settlers had toward the British. The Stamp Act gave Great Britain money by taxing the settlers on paper items without their consent. The Coercive Act made sure to punish the colonist for what they did at the Boston Tea Party and hoped to isolate Boston and New England from the other colonies.

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. The Tea Act of May 10, 1773, the demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor. The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution. The Tea Party became an iconic event of American history, and since then other political protests such as the Tea Party movement have referred to themselves as historical successors to the Boston protest of 1773.

The Edenton Tea Party from Week II topics relates to our discussions of the Boston Tea Party, which sparked the fight for independence from Britain in the Revolutionary War. By 1774, this uprising soon reached Edenton, North Carolina, where the women assembled an alliance to support colonial resistance to British measures, in response to the Tea Act of 1773. On May 10, 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act which granted the British East India Company control of tea sales in the American colonies. This act, passed by King George III, was not meant to raise revenue in the colonies, nor did it impose a new tax on tea — it was passed in efforts to save the East India Company from going bankrupt. However, many American colonists strongly opposed to

When it came to lessons the British had a hard time learning. It’s displayed clearly in the mid 1700’s. The Boston Tea Party was a turning point in the dynamics of both England and the American Colonist. One could say that it set everything in motion so we could get where we are today. The British’s stubbornness caused turmoil that could have been easily prevented. They were essentially the cause of the Americans actions. The question is whether or not the American responses were right. Were they too extreme? Should more have been done? Was a response even necessary? All these are questions that people tend not to think back on. They accept that what happened already happened, but don’t question whether it was reasonable. What if a situation similar to that of the Boston Tea Party were to happen? Do we (Americans) repeat what was done in the past or is there a better way to handle such a state of affairs? Analyzing what happened before, during, and after the Boston Tea Party will help determine whether or not it was it was the correct course of action and if it should be used again if a similar situation were to be presented in the future.

The Boston Tea Party was a tremendous moment in history that was caused by many factors and had many lasting effects that led to the war that shaped our country into what it is today, The Revolutionary War. The Boston Tea Party occurred due to the creation of The Tea Act in 1773. The colonists retaliated by taking tea off of a British boat and throwing it into the harbor. This led to the creation of The Intolerable Acts, and the beginning of The Revolutionary War.

The Boston Tea Party is as symbolic to the USA today as it was when it happened 250 years ago. Many literatures have been written about the Boston Tea Party, albeit with different intentions and academic or political inclinations and perceptions. In addition to the events that took place during the party, there are myriad events that led to or surrounded the events of the Boston Tea Party. In his book Defiance of the Patriots, Benjamin Carp covers the internal or domestic sides and external parties and events that caused and/or influenced the Boston Tea Party.

In the novel, Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America, the author Benjamin L. Carp gives an incredibly in-depth description of the events of the Boston tea party. In the Introduction, Carp argues that the “party” was not a singular event, but rather a catalyst for the impending Revolution. He presents each chapter as a new aspect of the event while offering primary sources, letters, newspapers, and magazines as compelling evidence. Each chapter is focused on a very specific topic and perfectly leads to the next. Carp gives the reader a concise layout of context, causes, proceedings, and the aftermath of this rebellious show of resolve and determination. By giving the reader the political and cultural

The Boston Tea Party was one of the first acts of defiance by the American Colonists against Great Britain. It was also an event that led to the independence of America. The Tea Party took place in the winter of December 16, 1773 in Boston, Massachusetts. In this event, American settlers did not want to pay the raising taxes of tea and other goods to the British Parliament, which led to the colonists sneaking on boats dressed as Native Americans, where they dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party was an act of terrorism under the Patriot Act because: they conspired to dump the tea into the harbor, attempted, and succeeded in dumping the tea into the harbor, and had the intent of committing a crime by carrying

the platform planks of the Tea Party and the ideals of the men who drove the American Revolution are very similar, though there are some key differences. Some of the issues the Tea Party concerns itself with, including traditional marriage and immigration, weren’t issues in revolutionary times so they aren’t part of the set of ideals explicitly laid out in documents such as the Declaration of Independence or the original Constitution. However, some of these may be implied by societal expectations of the times—it was unheard of for homosexual individuals to be open about their orientation and new immigrant groups were often not accepted by current residences of communities and industries. Also, some of the most important issues for revolutionaries,

When the Boston Tea Party occurred on the evening of December 16,1773, it was the culmination of many years of bad feeling between the British government and her American colonies. The controversy between the two always seemed to hinge on the taxes, which Great Britain required for the upkeep of the American colonies. Starting in 1765, the Stamp Act was intended by Parliament to provide the funds necessary to keep peace between the American settlers and the Native American population. The Stamp Act was loathed by the American colonists and later repealed by parliament.

The American settlers were left at outlaws and out of sovereignty protection under King George III of England while still able to be charge for breaking British reforms and laws such as smuggling across the Trans-Atlantic trade routes after August 1775. These goods included tea, coffee and other raw goods that supplied England’s industry and production of goods causing a disruption in slave trade and income through transnational trade which vital to the upkeep of the colonies during times of financial difficulties such as the introduction of the Stamp Act of 1765 on all documentations and newspaper to finance Britain’s Seven Years' War between 1756 and 1763. Another significant event, The Boston Tea Party of 1773 due to the taxation under the Tea Act depicts the civil unrest of colonists against the British Parliament and to regain rights to trade without taxation. The need to sever ties with England not only signalled the transition from colonialists to become freed men but during the American Revolutionary War it allowed the equality of colonialists as equal men thus it is the liberal ideals and the post-colonial attitudes created by mistreatment of the government that highlight the outcome of this rebellious period.

Of the many causes of the revolutionary war, Seven Years War, Boston Tea Party, and the Olive Branch Petition were the most important. The seven years which was also known as the French and Indian war, began in 1756 when the fighting between the French and colonists joined into a European conflict involving France, Austria, and Russia against Prussia and Britain. The war left with great Britain having territory from North America, but they had a disagreement over a policy and paying the of a war that was led to a colonial discontent, and also to the American revolution. The Boston tea party was an important event for the revolutionary war which made the colonists started the violence in the revolutionary war. For the colonist, it was there the first time to try violence against their own government which led to war by acts which were a series of laws passed by the British in 1770. The British initiated acts after the Boston tea party which caused more anger and leading more to the start of the American revolution in 1775. Now with The Olive Branch, John Dickinson drafted the olive branch petition, which was adopted by the second continental congress on July 5 and submitted to King George on July 8, 1775. It was an attempt to declare the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown. The war, it started on July 5, 1775, it was by a letter that was sent by the Second continental congress to King George, which was something showing that it would