Essay

Abstract: The famed act, known as the Boston Tea Party, was nothing like it sounds. This was an incident that served as a protest against unfair taxation on tea imports coming to America. Wanting to help a British tea company known as the East India Company, the British Parliament adjusted imports to America with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While some rebels in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to the new law. Many colonists were enraged by this new decree, so on the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three British ships, the Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This

“I got up and pretended to study the pictures on the walls like I was a lover of religious art. When I got to the Merciful Mother right above Sinita’s head, I reached in my pocket and pulled out the bottom I’d found on the train. It was sparkly like a diamond and had a little hole in back so you could thread a ribbon through it and wear it like a romantic lady’s choker necklace. It wasn’t something I’d do, but I could see the button would make a good trade with someone inclined in that direction.

To tackle the housing affordability, first of all, it is crucial to lift the supply of housing as it will release the pressure on the housing price. Nevertheless, the supply of housing is inelastic as it requires an adequate fund, time, approval from the Government. Besides, the housing system is heavily dependent on the private sector. Thus, the Government should provide initiatives for housing providers to shift the supply of houses in the market. Australia would follow the policies from other countries to tackle the housing affordability. However, it has to fit in the Australian context. These policies might work well in other places but it does not mean that it will be applicable in Australia. The Singapore Government has a public

2d. Resolved, That whoever shall be aiding, or assisting, in the landing, or carting, of such tea, from any ship or vessel, or shall hire any house, storehouse, or cellar or any place whatsoever to deposit the tea, subject to a duty as aforesaid, he shall be deemed an enemy to the liberties of America.

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When unreasonable taxes such as the Stamp Act, were implemented, the colonists passively expressed their complaints, grievances, and rights to others in the colonies or even to the king and British Parliament. They published pamphlets, letters, and other forms of expression that were widely viewed and read in the colonies, spreading and encouraging ideas of independence and rebellion. For example, in document 1, the images depict two clearly written phrases, “No Stamp Act” and “America, Liberty Restored.” These affirm their resentment towards

Dressed up as Natives the colonist boarded the boats and began pouring every tea chest into Boston Harbor. (document

The colonists had been so angered by all the taxes they’d had to pay, and such little independence they had, they decided they should dump the British’ tea into the harbor. As George Hughes said it, “We then were ordered by our commander to open the hatches and take out all the chests of tea and throw them overboard” (Doc 4). This was a huge turning point for the colonists, which imminently resulted in one of the greatest historic moments of the 1770’s. The colonists, after going through all the taxes and so many of the British’ laws and such, decided that they should finalize the decision and claim their

The Intolerable Acts of 1774, following the dumping of tea in the Boston river during the Tea Act of 1773, attempted at forcing taxation on the colonists to pay for damages and taking all political away from colonists.4 Following this harsh change in environment, this prompted colonists to ready themselves for war and the down-bringing of the British government in the United

Sunday of April 7th, 1765, a group of Rhode Island men boarded the Polly and took down the ship of its cargo carrying barrels of molasses from the sugar islands. This happened eight years before the Boston Tea Party, but the problem was the same. The British Parliament placed a tax on the sugar without letting the colonists have a chance to talk it over. This made the Americans enraged. The Americans needed to resist the tax, or they are just slaves to the British. Americans believed they had the right with what they built with their own strength, knowledge and will. They knew they had to obey laws, but only if they had a say in the making of the laws. The Americans would’ve resisted any tax the British put on them but when they taxed sugar,

Mohawk Indians snuck onto a tea ship and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.

One may ask “Were the American colonists politically correct when rebelling against England? Was it their ethical duty to rebel or should they have tried to resolve the matter peacefully?” One could ask themselves this question, “What would I do if I had been in their situation? This question can be answered as follows.” Samuel Adams said it best when he said, “Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; and Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.” The colonists tried reasoning with the King through correspondence, but to no avail. Left with very little choice, the colonists really had two options: First, to stay under the rule of a tax-happy King, or two, fight. Picking a fight with the world’s strongest empire would be no easy task! Not to mention, the King lives over three thousand miles away, and he could care less about the colonists’ wellbeing. He thought they were below a peasant! So, did they have a right to rebel? One could only come to one conclusion, and that was the same conclusion the colonists came to FIGHT!

colonists saw some tea left, so they went rowing out to the crates and got rid of the tea by

The Rights bestowed upon us by the grace of Nature, demanding that all men receive equal ownership of their own Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. You don coats of red, yet you are blind to the fact that they are stained with the blood of good men, and that we cannot abide. In the name of progress and Enlightenment, we seek change in the nature of your tyranny over us and the land we lost our lives for. In demanding our Rights, we demand, also, the release of our lives, as they have been held under the thumb of the British monarchy and its outdated ways for far too long. We the colonists stand united in the face of change, and will fight for our Right to be free from your rule over

Issues of taxation, quartering of soldiers, justice, trade, and disregard for the representative government of the colonies were discussed. It also details the appeals that the colonists made to the British government to stop this unfair treatment. The arguments presented the document were logical and well organized. Any reader at the time would have been moved to support the American colonies.