The Effect Of The Tea Party Movement On Democracy

At first glance, the Boston Tea Party may not appear to be a terrorist attack, because the ships were not damaged, except for one broken padlock, and no one was hurt, but it could be a terrorist attack, according to the Patriot Act. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty, who were an organization which was formed to protect the rights of the people and to fight taxation from the British government, in which the colonists, who were disguised as Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea. This act of retaliation was to show the British that the colonists identified themselves as Americans, not British. The Patriot Act was instituted in October 26, soon after the attack of September 11, 2001 to classify terrorist attacks. The Boston Tea Party could be considered an act of terrorism because the boats were hijacked by the American colonists, they brought weapons onto the ships with the intent of destroying property, and colonists intentionally destroyed a considerable amount of property.

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

American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked A Revolution written by Harlow Giles Unger offers an in-depth analysis of the Boston Tea Party. Unger organizes the events in chronological order starting 30 years before the Boston Tea Party occurred. In the end he touches upon the aftermath of the journey towards self-government. The book presents many engaging details and provides the reader with more of a storytelling feel. He describes the colonists hard times and anger towards being taxed by British Parliament. Unger adds insights and conclusions about various topics and the people surrounding the rebellion, which was one of his goals in his writing. He wanted to tell of the untold Tea Party 's impact on American history politically, socially, and economically. The book was intended for the general public, because he wrote “ironically, few, if any Americans today… know the true and entire story of the Tea Party and the Patriots who staged it” (4).

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

In 1773 the Boston Tea Party occurred, a monumental step in America’s early growth, leading to eventual freedom from Britain. As the British East India Company forced a tea tax on colonists, it would be up to the citizens of America, and patriots like Samuel Adams, to stand up for their rights against the British. They organized themselves enough to partake in a rebellious act, dressing as Native Americans in the night, and destroying an incoming supply of tea. While at the time the disposal of 17 million pounds of tea (Danzer et. al 99) might have seemed a waste, this act would lead to rights for colonists and a revolution, providing America with freedom, thereby causing the Boston Tea Party to be a vital act in the country’s growth.

So far, the Tea Party in Texas has made great contributions that have lead to many success for the Republican party. Tea party members demonstrated the power of their influence in the, “… 2010 general elections by contributing to a GOP sweep that gave Republicans… a two-thirds majority…” and control of the Texas House of Representatives (Montgomery). Some of the Texas Tea Party endorsed candidates that won office this past year include: Governor Abbott, Attorney General Paxton, Senators Hall, Shaheen, Taylor, Huffines, and Burton for State Senate, and Representatives Anderson and Rinaldi for the Texas House of Representatives. Presently, the Texas Tea Party is also endorsing U.S. Senator Cruz and Mr. Ron Paul for President.

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.

Allow me to introduce to you Perry Hopkins and Del. Cory V. McCray, both are from different cities. Both lead different lives. Both lost their voting rights due to felony convictions relating drugs. Both never recidivated; yet, both can never vote. Disenfranchisement takes away more than a simple right to cast a ballot. It steals power. It silences. And this plague of power-corrupted-racially motivated theft in America has affected women, Native Americans, immigrants, those without land, African-Americans, and now felons. By disenfranchising felons, the government is robbing 5.9 million citizens of an inalienable right. As a result, the government has disabled millions of people from interacting proficiently with society. Although, some argue

The Boston Tea Party was an important event in the American Revolutionary War because it was the first time the colonists got to respond to unfair laws imposed by the British.

There is no single agenda of the Tea Party. This allows each autonomous group to set its own priorities. Tea Party organizers view this as strength, because this aids against corruption from within and co-opting by outside entities. The Tea Party’s

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.

A pivotal point in history developed the day of December 16, 1773 when the colonists decided it was time to stand up against the injustices that the mother country of Great Britain had weighted them with. The Boston Tea Party was a crucial event for the Revolutionary War. With this act, colonists initiated the bloodthirsty portion of the revolution. It was the primary attempt of the colonists to disobey and rebel with brutality against their own government. The consecutive events were generated by a domino effect. The colonists recognized for the first time that the British government treated them atrociously. It was a significant stride to approaching the Independence dream. The Colonists fled from their mother country to embark on a fresh

The period of events leading up to the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution including; the Molasses Act, The Land Bank Ordeal and the French and Indian War these represented acts of rule over the American colonists by the British (Unger 8). Following Patrick Henry’s speech against the stamp tax, in his Stamp Act Resolves, the Stamp Act Congress held a meeting in New York by the Massachusetts Assembly (Unger 73). It was here that a Declaration of Rights and Grievances of the Colonists in America was adopted in October 1765; colonists outlined what they thought were injustices and inequalities that the British crown were trying to impose on the Colonists (Journals of the Continental Congress). The tone of the document was mild and polite to the British

The Boston tea party took place on December 16, 1773, when a protest against tea taxation became a law; the protesters threw many chests of teas into the Boston harbor. And started drinking smuggles tea. That’s when the Boston tea party took place in us history.

“Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has,” (Carp, 2010). The words of Margaret Mead, the American Cultural Anthropologists, summarize most historical events where people unite towards a purpose. The cultural identity of a country is molded when its people unite for a cause; one such event is the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea party is an important watershed in American history, one that determined the American identity forever. The establishment of independence from British colonization however did not happen overnight. The uprising was organized, carried out, and led by Samuel Adams (political philosopher) and a group of Patriots. Under the leadership of Samuel Adams and his compatriots, also known as the Sons of Liberty, on December 16th 1773, 5,000 people gathered at the Old South Meeting House to plan the Boston Tea Party. This essay will examine the causes of the movement, the ships, how the Sons of Liberty arrived to destroying the tea, the loyalty whether to the colonies or Britain, the damage and the influence it has today.