The Impact Of The Boston Tea Party

The American colonists did the right thing by dumping the tea overboard due to the British taxing the tea. All they wanted was freedom, and this was an act of freedom to the colonists. Also, the colonists didn’t have the money to pay for all the taxed goods. Lastly, they were very polite to the British before and during the Boston Tea Party. The colonists of America did nothing wrong.

The British had established a numerous amount of taxes, Townshend Acts, on the American colonies including taxes on tea, glass, paper, paint, and lead. The colonies did not like these laws (Brooks). This shows that the laws were not a big hit, they made the citizens upset. The laws or acts were not popular to the people, especially in Boston. This resulted to send more british troops to Boston in 1268, to help promote the new taxes (Brooks). This proves that the citizens did not like these laws they wanted to change them so the colonist roited. Boston citizens responded to the act by protesting british imports and vowed to find ways to increase manufacturing to make them less dependent on British goods (Brooks). This explains that the citizens did not like these laws so they started protesting. The laws were not very popular, it led to the colonists

The tea act made the price of tea lower from the East India Company so everyone would buy from them. They said that it was a benefit to the colonists because they could get tea cheaper now. The tax on the tea was very minimal and they just wanted to put a tax on it to show they have the right to tax.

Britain set the price of tea very low, so that the colonists would only buy their tea (doc 3). This threatened to put colonial merchants out of business (doc 3). The Boston tea party was a result of the tea act (doc 3). Colonists were angry that merchants were going out of business. A band of about 100 men went aboard 3 British cargo ships and dumped $88,000 worth of tea into the ocean. To rebel even further, the colonists boycotted tea and turned to coffee. They threatened to tar and feather a captain of a British cargo ship if he unloaded the tea (doc 6). Protests began to become more and more violent. They tarred and feathered a British tax collector, and poured boiling hot tea into his mouth (doc 7). This contributed to the events leading up to the revolutionary war. Britain imposed another act on the colonists without

The English Bill of Rights states, “That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time, or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal,” (English Bill of Rights). This means that the King cannot tax or charge English Subjects without consent of the English Parliament per the English Bill of Rights. The Tea Act is the tipping point because the Colonists rights have been revoked by the King for his greed by making the Tea Act. By taxing the Colonists on tea, who are English Subjects, King George III violated the English Bill of Rights.

Britain wasn't giving up their hopes, they were still going to try to make the colonists pay the taxes. Since the colonists were still boycotting British tea, the British East India Company ( B.E.I. Company) lost a lot of money. To try to save this company they passed the Tea Act. The Tea Act was a law that allowed the B.E.I Company to sell their tea directly to the colonists. Originally, the B.E.I. Company sold the tea to merchants and from there, merchants sold the tea to the colonists with a higher price. But instead, they bypassed the merchants and directly sold the tea to the colonists, at a lower price. The colonists still didn't buy the cheaper tea because there was still a tax on tea! In order to protest, the colonists had public meetings and vowed to stop the B.E.I. Company from unloading. When the ships arrived in Philadelphia and New York, they forced them to turn back. In Charles Town, when tea arrived, it was seized and stored in a warehouse. But, in Boston, it wasn't as smoothy a process to turn back the ships. When three ships arrived in Boston Harbor, a royal governor whose house had been destroyed by Stamp Act protesters, refused to let the ships turn back. He then ordered them to unload the tea from the ships. In response to this action, the Sons of Liberty organized the Boston Tea party. They also organized the Boston Tea Party because they were mad and angry. When they passed the Tea Act and lowered the tea prices, they thought it was a trick to make the colonists pay the taxes. These actions by the British resulted in protesting, and eventually led to the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was held on December 16, 1773. That night approximately, 50 or 60 men disguised themselves as Native Americans and were armed with hatchets. They then went to the wharf and boarded three ships that contained boxes of tea. Swiftly and quietly, they broke the boxes of tea with their

The resistance created by the Act later culminated into the Boston Tea Party. History’s article title “Parliament passes the Tea Act” states “Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the so-called Boston Tea Party with about 60 members of the radically anti-British Sons of Liberty.” This group of about 60 members dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773, which nearly amounts to a $4,000,000 loss in modern value. The colonists committed this act thinking that the British Parliament would back down, but it did the exact opposite. In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament enacted the Coercive Acts, known to the colonists as the Intolerable Acts, on March 28, 1774. The Coercive Acts was a series of four acts: The Boston Port Act, The Massachusetts Government Act, The Administration of Justice Act, and The Quartering Act. In addition to those four acts, a fifth act known as The Quebec Act was added to the Coercive Acts. The article “British Parliament adopts the Coercive Acts” by History describes each act

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

The colonist like having their tea and being able to drink it, but with this act it gives away their free to drink tea with now having to pay for it and their loss of money by it being so expensive. The act is made to help East India Company overcome financial problems. Colonist are buying smuggled tea to avoid having to buy the British tea. In Boston, the colonist do not want to pay the taxes for the tea at all. They were not happy, which leads up to starting a protest with more than 100 people involved, this protest is known as The Boston Tea party. It got its name by, people dressed as American Indians, boarding ships, and dumping 45 tons of tea into the Harbor. This angered the British, which envolved in the Intolerable acts, even more rules for the

This act would help to launch a revolutionary movement in Boston. The Tea Act was designed to support the British East India Company, which was financially collapsing. It was being weighed down by eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. The tax on tea still remained, but the company would actually be able to sell its tea for a price that was lower than before. Also, the colonists had to buy the tea from the British, and nowhere else.

This had greatly disappointed the colonist. So when the king put taxes on them, they were not happy. This problem also has a fancy term called ‘’taxation without representation’’. The colonists felt used by a government who did not represent them nor cared about their opinions. They felt like slaves to England. These bitter feelings got the colonist to the point of revolt. These sentiments can be realized by Patrick Henry’s quote “give me liberty or give me death!”. The colonist prepared a petition called the olive branch petition to stop the taxes, while also preparing for war. After the king declined their petition and promised to demolish all of the rebels, the colonies were fired up. There were many wars after that like the battle of bunker hill and the revolutionary war. Finally, on July 4 1776, the Americans got their freedom from the British.

This henceforth said that it was right for the Colonists to be taxed unfairly. This tax was supposed to help the East India Company which was hurting because of the surplus of unsold tea (The Tea Act). The passage of the Tea Act led to colonial resistance and protests that paved the way for the fight for independence from Britain. The colonies revolted against it, of course, but the British once again responded by passing another act. Boston Tea Party, was biggest retaliation on the colonies’ part (The Tea Act).

During the Boston Tea Party, the colonists climbed aboard the ships in the harbor, and then proceeded to throw chests of tea into the water; thus ruining the tea (4). The Boston Tea party had cost Britain thousands of dollars, and would soon lead to Britain passing the Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable Acts were laws that were meant to punish the colonists for their role in the Boston Tea Party. Boston Harbor would be closed until the colonists paid Britain for the tea they had destroyed.

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.

These acts had been around for a long time and caused little problems. They often benefited from these acts because although they had to buy from England, it was the most advanced industrial country and could often offer the best prices. The first tax to cause trouble in the colonies was the Sugar Act followed closely by the Stamp Act. The Sugar Act was truly just a restatement of old customs laws in an effort to raise money. The Stamp Act was a tax in which anything formally written or printed would have to be on specially stamped paper which was shipped from London. The colonists would soon pay taxes "at every stage of a lawsuit, that diplomas and deeds, almanacs and advertisements, bills and bonds, customs papers and newspapers, even dice and cards, would all be charged," (Morgan 19). The colonists reacted very violently to these taxes. They protested and boycotted throughout the nation and the British Parliament soon repealed the tax. Radicals began to proclaim the fact that there should be no taxation without representation. This meant that colonists should be represented in Parliament if they were going to be taxed by them. The British stated that every member of the Parliament was there to represent the whole Empire, not just the electors he represented. Therefore, the Americans would have no representation in Parliament. In 1773 the British decided to tax tea. They granted the British East India Company to ship their goods