Boston Tea Dbq

In 1773, Parliament aroused the Americans by passage of the Tea Act. This act, designed to help the East India Company by making it cheaper for them to sell tea in America, was interpreted by Americans as a subtle ploy to get them to consume taxed tea. In Boston, in December 1773, a group of men dumped the tea into the harbor.

One of the largest points that the author makes is the significance of tea to the people in the colonies. While there were many who thought that tea was evil and caused health issues, the overwhelming majority of colonist were obsessed. Tea was something new and seen as a luxury item. It took a six-month voyage for the EIC to bring to the precious leaves to Boston. Once there, it was auctioned to those who could afford it. While the bourgeoisie sipped their tea and

The Townshend act was proclaimed in 1767. The colonists viewed it as an abuse of power after the last acts. The act was eventually repealed but left the tax on tea. Some of the imported items that it taxed were: glass, lead, paints, paper and tea.

1st, Resolved, That whoever shall aid, or abet, or in any manner assist in the introduction of tea, from any place whatsoever, into this colony, while it is subject, by a British act to parliament, to the payment of a duty, for the purpose of raising a revenue in American, he shall be deemed an enemy to the liberties of America.

In the prewar decade from 1765 to 1775 there was an escalating in anti-Brits opinion in the American language colony. Some reason that this escalated was that people felt as though they didn’t really owe the Brits anything but that the Brits owed them something for taking care of the colonies. Ever since they imposed the stamp act the American settlers felt insecure with having to pay so many taxes to the British people because they owed a huge national debt that they had to pay for colonizing the American colonies. The settlers responded with more boycotts, daughters of liberty and newspapers started displaying support for the colonists; the sons of liberty, the newspapers started displaying support for the settlers, riots, and some published names of the merchants that were

The act angered colonial merchants because it only allowed tea to be bought from the East India Company. The issue of “taxation without representation” occurred and was felt even more than before. The colonist and merchants felt that the tax was unconstitutional and boycotted the tea. “...the tea boycott mobilized large segments of the population.” [ The Unfinished Nation, Alan Brinkley pg.102]. This highlights how the colonies were coming together against the British and the mistreatment they have

The hope of doing this was to lower the price of East India tea as well as the duty below the price of the smuggled Dutch tea, therefore motivating Americans to obey the law. This act lowered the tax on tea to entice boycotting Americans to buy it. However, the Americans did not fall for this trick because they thought this act was to help increase revenues to pay the “salaries of royal governors and judges.” (150). The Tea Act had many effects on the colonists. First of all, they did not like this taxation, causing them to think of ways to break the law. They came up with one way, which was to pressure the tea agents to resign. “Without agents, governors yielded, and tea cargoes either landed duty-free or were sent home.” (150). In November 1773, three ships containing tea arrived in Boston. The ships cleared customs, and the crews, unloaded all the cargo except for the tea because they could sense the extreme tension in the town. The ship captains wanted to leave the town due to the tension, but Governor Hutchinson would not allow them to leave without paying the tea duty. He gave them twenty days to pay. If they did not pay

Question: How did Colonists response to the Tea Act contribute to the Boston Tea Party? Thesis: The Boston Tea Party was not only a catalyst for the Revolutionary war, but the dawn of the American spirit as we know it. Introduction: In 1773 British Parliament imposed the Tea Act on American colonists. The primary goals of this act were to bail out the East India Company which was financially struggling at the time, reduce the surplus of tea that they held, and undercut the price of illegal tea sold on Americas black market.

Some of the ways in which the colonists responded to British actions between 1765 and 1770 were the Stamp Act, the stationing of British troops in Boston, the Townshend Act, and the Tea Act 33. The Stamp Act was put in place so the colonist would pay tax on every legal paper, license, newspaper, and almanac. The stationing of British troops in Boston were because the Boston and Philadelphia both agreed to not give goods or take good from Britain until the Stamp Act was taken away. The Townshend Act was placed a year after the Stamp Act was taken away. The Townshend Act was almost like the Stamp act but it did not place a tax on every little thing, it was the more important things they placed a tax on like glass, lead, paint, and paper also

A avid rebel against of British taxation Samuel Adams helped popularize the disdain in Boston to the newly enforced Stamp Act created by Britain. He also played a major part in the Boston Tea party helping to organize it which was shown as a rebellion towards the Tea Act in which British Tea was taxed, problem was that British tea was basically the colonist choice. Adams for Massachusetts from 1765 to 1774. Also he founded Boston's Committee of Correspondence, which helped to coordinate and help with the American Revolutionary War. After he left from his position as state legislature, Adams served as a Massachusetts delegate to Continental Congress until 1781. While in that position he advocated for independence from Great Britain, which could

When did the Boston Tea Party take place you may ask? The Boston Tea Party lasted approximately 3 hours on December 16, 1773. Which this time of year in Massachusetts it is extremely cold at night. I bet now you’re wondering why it’s called The Boston Tea party, or why does it contain the word tea. Did we really have a fight over tea? The Boston Tea Party didn’t get this name til the 1820’s. Before then is was called the destruction of the tea.

The Tea Act said two things. First, it stated that the amount of actions needed to go through customs would be reduced for anyone exporting tea to the British colonies as said in the fifth paragraph of the act, “…and to export such tea to any of the British colonies or plantations in America, or to foreign parts, discharged from the payment of any customs or duties whatsoever; any thing in the said recited act, or any other act to the contrary notwithstanding.”(SFI 1, americanhistory.abc-clio.com). This part of the act was an attempt to save the nearly bankrupt East India Company, which had played a big role in the British victory over France in the Seven Year War by taking over multiple French settlements. The second thing the act stated was that there would be a new tax on the tea for the American colonists. The British thought that because the act would actually reduce the price of tea, even with the tax, the American colonists would accept this new act. The act backfired and actually just fueled the colonist’s anger toward the British Crown as they were being taxed without

The Stamp Act of 1765 imposed a tax on all printed documents. Newspapers and almanacs were very popular at this time, as it was one of the only sources of entertainment and information for the colonists. A tax on documents as popular as those was able to affect the wide majority of the population and thus, take away large amounts of money from the colonies. Another Act which widely affected the colonies was the Tea Act of 1773. The British exempted the East India Company from export taxes into the colonies in an effort to stomp out colonial merchants from competition and monopolize the tea trade. This act was not popular with the merchants that lived off the high-in-demand tea trade and, along with other patriotic colonists, started protesting about the issue of taxation without representation. These acts and other tax-imposing ones led many to believe that having so many financial burdens should only be a decision that the colonial governments themselves should be making. This issue became a major difference in how Britain and the colonies believed a government should be

First I’ll briefly mention The Townshend Acts. The Townshend Acts of 1767 were laws which set new import taxes on British goods. This includes paper, lead, glass, paint and of course tea. These taxes used revenues to maintain British troops in America and to pay some Royal officials who were made to work in the colonies.

The Tea Act of 1773 was a tax on tea but, the British lowered the cost of tea significantly enough that even with the tax, British tea was cheaper than Dutch tea. Also to keep the price down, the British East India Co. got rid of the middleman in the colonies and opened up their own shops. If the colonists bought this tea, they would be accepting the fact that the British could tax without representation. On Dec. 16th 1773 the ships docked at the Boston ports. The Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians and threw 324 chests of tea into the water. England responded to the Boston Tea Party by the Coercive Act of 1774.