A Paragraph On The Road To The Revolution

It was the Tea Act. This act stated that only the British East India Company could sell or transport tea. Members of parliament passed this act because many of them had stakes in the company. At the time the British India Company was going bankrupt. This act threatened all colonial businesses by creating a monopoly. In Boston, the colonists devised a plan to resist this act. Several colonists dressed as Indians to deceive the British. These colonists seized the imported tea and dumped it into the harbor. The colonists dubbed this “the tea party.” The British responded to these actions by creating four acts jointly called the Coercive Acts. These acts closed the Boston ports to all trade, increased power of Massachusetts governor, granted trials of royal officials in Massachusetts be tried elsewhere, and allowed the new governor rights to quarter his troops anywhere. These Coercive Acts only angered the colonists more. They have strengthened their non-importation of British goods. They have also begun the forming of local militia companies.

After about 4 years the Townshend acts were passed. The Townshend acts were originated by Charles Townshend. They were meant to add even more taxes on all imported goods, which makes everything almost double the original price. Great Britain needed to pass this act because they still had so much of the debt to pay ofF. This was a huge financial burden for the colonists. There were many violent protests.This act eventually led to the Boston tea

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.

After the French and Indian War, Britain did numerous things to provoke the colonists to revolt against the tyrant king, King George III. The British taxed unfairly and enforced ridiculous laws on the colonists. the colonists rebelled due to anger and disgust toward Britain, and through pride and patriotism toward their future country, they fought for independence. King George III was a cruel and unfair man. He treated the colonists wrongly and ungraciously.

The British government started taxing various things that were being shipped to America such as paper and glass. Most important to the cause of the Boston Port Act was that the British were taxing tea that was arriving in the Boston harbor. The colonists became very frustrated, and they decided to throw the next shipment of tea into the harbor. This became known as the Boston Tea Party, and it happened on December 16, 1773.

The Tea Act of 1773 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on May 10, 1773. Under this Act, British East India Company could directly sell their tea in the American colonies compared to selling its tea only in auction in London. Further the duties charged on the tea shipped to American colonies would be waived. (https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-tea-act) The tea act was one of the crucial act and turning points in the history of American colonies that later led to the revolutionary war. It was series of many acts that sparked the revolutioanlry war. The Tea Act was different because because it showed that colonies valued principles more that money.

The Boston tea party was assembled by the Sons of Liberty on Thursday December 16th 1773 around 7:00 to 10:00 PM put on in front of a crowd of over 5,000 people this was an act of defiance of the Americas to Britain to the Tea Act of 1773, as well as taxation without representation or more well known as the Townshend Act of 1767. However it was just not these two factors which lead them to do this it was also the thought of Britain charging the colonists more for tea, ink, and many other things, in order to pay for the troops fighting in the French and Indian War. So at first Britain was making everyone pay over price on tea so the colonists started smuggling tea from Dutch and other European tea makers. These things violated

They reacted to Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act (1765), the Townshend Duties (1767) and the Tea Act (1773). In 1765 the colonists rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them and the American Revolution began. The controversy over tax contributed to violence. The Boston Massacre or Incident on King Street as it is called by the British happened

The tea act was a tax on tea passed by the parliament to tax the colonists to pay off their debt from the french and indian war. The patriots were outraged by the tea act because they felt why should the British be able to tax us when we are all the way across the ocean. Ever since the tea act was passed in 1773 there have been hostilities had been near the breaking point. The colonists did not like that the British East India tea company was given an exclusive right to sell tea in America. Sam Adams organized the sons of liberty because he wanted to take down the unfair tax on tea. He and the sons of liberty dumped hundreds of pounds of tea into the harbor. This was one of the main events that lead up to the Revolutionary war.

In 1767, the Townshend Acts were imposed (the tax on glass, paper and tea). One of the most significant events mentioned was the Tea Act. To explicate, the Tea Act granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies. As a result of the outburst against the Tea Act, King George declared the Boston Port Act which closed the Boston Harbor and forced the colonies to pay for the tea lost. Finally, the colonies decided to go to war against Britain.

The main event was the Tea Act in 1773. It was a time when Lord North tried fooling the colonist by selling them taxed tea that was very cheap. Indeed the colonists were very disturbed from this terrible and unfair act and decided to take revenge by doing the Boston Tea Party. They planned it so that they would unload the tea that came from British East India Company’s but it would not go to the colonists. Instead the tea would go straight into the sea. The colonists wasted 90,000 pounds of tea that day, and were proud of what they did. But the King was obviously enraged by this act done by the colonist, colonists had squandered both money and tea in this act. He thought he was losing control over the colonists, so he declared the Intolerable

This act stripped the colonists from their Independents. What would of you done? This act made it where it taxed glass, lead, and paper. To enforce the Townsend Act. The British officials had to assistive. This allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods. Colonists were upset because it took powers away from them. Colonists boycotted many British goods. Women supported the boycott. They called them selves the daughters of liberty. Samuel Adams wrote a letter stating that the laws violated their rights. The letter was shared and others join the protests. So the British came in Boston and restored order. The Boston massacre was a bad sight for Britain. They seen troops as foreign enemies. A fight broke out between the two. On March 5, 1770 is when it stared. The soldiers fired into a crown and killed several innocent people. Samuel Adams protests about the spread about the shooting. Colonists called the shooting the Boston Massacre. The soldiers was charger of murder but was not guilty. The reason they were charger was because it was a act in self defense. The Parliament repealed almost all of the Townsend Act. They kept the tax on tea. British knew the demand tea was high the boycott. Colonists were smuggling tea and not paying for it. Parliament passed out the tea act in 1773. Which allowed British East India company to sale tea. The colonists feared that it would put them out of business. Three ships arrived filled with tea. So the colonists dressed up like Indians and dumped all the tea out in the river. And that is how it became the Boston Tea Party. Parliament decided to punish Boston In the spring of 1774 it passed the coercive acts. Colonists called the laws the Intolerable act. These stated MA charter was canceled. The new Quartering act. Required colonists to home British soldiers. General Thomas Gage became the government MA. The British hoped these acts would

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.

The article “The Spirt of ‘74” written by Ray Raphael discusses the problem that arose after the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was a major event in history that showed that the colonists were happy with the high taxes on tea. They formed a group called the Sons of Liberty and dressed like Native Americans and threw crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. This was a major because it showed that the colonists weren’t going to let Parliament put taxes on one of their major goods. However, the Sons of Liberty didn’t thank of the repercussions. The Boston Tea Party caused severe conciseness to the citizens, such the Coercive Act and Massachusetts Government Act.