Cause And Effect Of The Boston Tea Party

This act made Britain sell the tea straight to the colonies, skipping the merchants. This tea was cheaper then the tea that was smuggled, however, the colonists still didn’t buy it. This was because there was still a tax on the tea. The Tea Act made the colonists think that they were trying to be fooled, which they were, by the British. This made them angry and they had multiple reactions. Some reactions were not allowing ships with tea to board the harbor. This sent back more than one ship to England. Also they still were tar and feathering the British. On December 16, 1173 the Boston Tea Party occurred. The Sons of Liberty, a patriot group, had fifty men dress up as Mohawk Indians. During the Boston Tea Party, tea that the British sent to sell was being thrown overboard off a boat (Doc. 3). After this all happened 342 crates of tea worth one million dollars, was gone to waste. The next day the sea was filled with tea crates and tea. The Sons of Liberty sunk the tea crates under the ocean to make sure the tea was ruined. The Tea Act made colonists mad and angry, leading to the Declaration of

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that took place on December 16, 1773 in Boston Harbor in Boston, Massachusetts. The Sons of Liberty led by Samuel Adams, dressed as Mohawk Indians destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent from the East India Company by throwing chests full of tea into the Boston Harbor. George Hewe’s, an eyewitness of the event writes in his journal, “In about three hours from the time we went on board, we had thus broken and thrown overboard every tea chest to be found in the ship, while those in the other ships were disposing of the tea in the same way, at the same time.” (Hewes). The Sons of Liberty, a secret group formed by the 13 colonies to protect the rights of the colonists, protested in opposition of the Tea Act implemented on May 10, 1773. The Tea Act was an act placed by the British Parliament in order to raise revenue for Great Britain that required tax on

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts on December 16, 1773. The citizens of the colonies felt cheated due to the lack of representation in Parliament which caused unfair taxes colonists could not do anything about. In their opinion, they were British citizens as well and deserved the same rights given to those back in the mother country and to not have “virtual representation” where members of Parliament were chosen to speak for those across the sea instead of an election to decide who holds their seat in office. Therefore, when a shipment of highly overpriced tea, due to taxes, docked at the harbor, the Sons of Liberty paraded in dressed as American Indians and in a matter of three hours

After months of protests Parliament realized their mistake and repealed the tax, but the damage had already been done and the Colonists would start a revolution to separate themselves from the British. On December 16, 1773 the Sons of Liberty, a group of Patriots led by Samuel Adams cut open 340 chests of British East India Company tea, weighing over 92,000 pounds (roughly 46 tons), onboard the Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor and then dumped it into Boston Harbor; a total loss of $1,700,000 dollars in today’s money. Weeks after the ordeal the harbor still had the smell of tea. Until the 340 chest of British Eat India Company tea were paid for the British completely closed off Boston Harbor. The Intolerable act which was meant to punish the actions of the Sons of Liberty. This did not help Colonists’ approval of the British government. The harsh punishments unified the American colonists even more against British rule. The effect the Boston Tea Party had was noteworthy and ultimately sparked the American Revolution which started only two years later in Massachusetts on April 19,

The British hoped that the tea act would undercut the tea smuggled into britain's north american colonies.The British government led by the Prime Minister, Lord North, hoped to reassert Parliament’s right to impose direct revenue taxes on the American Colonies with the cheap tea.Never-the-less the British anticipated a good reception to the Tea Act in America, after all, the colonists would get their tea at a cost lower than ever before.Tea would be cheaper in America than Britain. Ships laden with more than half a million pounds of tea set off for the colonies shortly after the Tea Act was passed.

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS- November of 1773 an event happened that changed the colonist’s lives forever. During this time the Tea Act was taking place. This helped the British East Tea company by enabling them to send tea straight to the colonies, whereas they usually had to send the tea to England, then on to the colonies. The Parliament thought the colonist would like this change, but because they had to pay the duty, or import tax, which did not sit well with them, they were not so gracious with this decision. They started boycotting English goods, including the tea. Later in the month of November the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians and went on the ship containing the tea, and dumped hundreds beyond hundreds of boxes of tea off of the boat.

At the time tea was the most popular non-alcoholic drink in the world, and consequently, was highly taxed. All tea which was being sent to America was first shipped through England. By the time the tea made it to America, the price was through the roof. In response to the high price of tea, many merchants began smuggling the tea into America and selling it at a discounted price to the colonists. This system worked well until the Tea Act was passed. The Tea Act lowered the import tax on tea, and imposed a small tax on the tea itself. Unfortunately, the colonists did not react as well as the English hoped. Merchants felt threatened by the tax as many of their businesses relied on smuggled tea to turn a profit. The colonists also reacted negatively, believing that Britain was unfairly imposing a tax which they had to right to impose. In retaliation, American colonists dressed as Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea from British merchant ships into Boston Harbour, and again, nine days later in Delaware, colonists dumped over 700 chests. The British, rightly outraged by the actions of the colonists, imposed the Coercive Acts: 1) the King closed Boston Harbour until all the dumped tea was payed for, 2) the Massachusetts charter was annulled, and the governor council was reappointed by the King, 3) the Quartering Act required homeowners

Other protestors had successfully prevented the unloading of tea in three other colonies. The Royal Governor refused to allow the tea to return to Britain. Because of that, they had to somehow remove the tea from the ship, or prevent the ship from going back to Britain. The British thought that they could trick the colonists into buying taxed tea by making it so cheap, but they were not fooled. The colonists were also mad at Britain because they didn’t wanted any taxes, and the British taxed the colonists on

There are a lot of events that led up to the American Revolution, one of them was the Tea Act. As a way to earn money, the British decided to tax the colonists’ tea. (Document 3) In response to this outrageous situation, the colonists dressed up as Indians, snuck onto their ships, and dumped chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. (Document 4) This act

The name, the Boston Tea Party, didn’t come along until the 1820s, so its original name was “the destruction of tea”. During the night of December 16, 1773 the Sons of Liberty organized a protest. The protests’ location was Griffin’s Wharf which is on the Boston Harbor. There were over 100 colonists who participated in this protest. The colonists were upset about the Tea Act and strongly believed in the phrase, “no taxation without representation”. To not be punished, the colonists dressed up as Mohawk Indians. George Robert Twelves Hewes was part of the protest said, “To prevent discovery we agreed to wear ragged clothes and disfigure ourselves, dressing to resemble Indians as much as possible, smearing our faces with grease and lamp black or soot, and should not have known each other except by our voices…I immediately dressed myself in the costume of an Indian, equipped with a small hatchet…after having painted my face and hands with coal dust in the shop of a blacksmith.” Those who participated threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The chests held more than 90,000 pounds of tea which caused this event to take about three hours. In today’s money, the cost of the damage was $1,000,000, but in 1773 currency it cost £9,659. The three ships that the tea were on were the Dartmouth, Beaver, and the Eleanor. The next day, colonists who were in boats saw chests of tea that were still floating in the water,

On December 16th, 1773, the Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. This was a reaction to the new tea tax placed on the colonists. 3 other ports peacefully had the shipments of tea return to Great Britain. Due to heavy populations of Patriots in the areas of Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia ports. The colonists were not justified in the doing of this reaction, because they wasted a portion of Great Britain’s money, tried to frame Native Americans, and finally they committed treason against England.

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.

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.

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.