The Revolutionary Movement: The Boston Tea Party Movement

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).

You might think that the Boston Tea Party was just some irregular people dumping tea in the sea. But, actually it was a protest about the awful taxes that were put on the British tea. So, a group of patriots called the Sons of Liberty decided to dump the tea into the Boston Harbor. The Sons of Liberty and colonists wanted to prove a point that the taxes were atrocious and the British’s taxes on the tea were stealing their business. They indeed dumped tea into the sea, but the whole point was to protest the British and their taxes. The Sons of Liberty were the people who did the tea dumping process and the tea

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 1771, group of colonist protested many years of increasing British oppression, by making an attack on merchant ships that were being brought in at Boston Harbor. Due to this, the British then close down the ports, bringing even harsher penalties on the colonies. This famous act of American colonial resistance was to protest taxation without representation that the British were enforcing. British Parliament imported goods with the passage of the Tea Act, many of the colonies denied tea shipments, but the merchants in Boston refused to acknowledge this Patriot revelry. On December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams; who was a leader

The Boston Tea Party was a tremendous moment in history that was caused by many factors and had many lasting effects that led to the war that shaped our country into what it is today, The Revolutionary War. The Boston Tea Party occurred due to the creation of The Tea Act in 1773. The colonists retaliated by taking tea off of a British boat and throwing it into the harbor. This led to the creation of The Intolerable Acts, and the beginning of The Revolutionary War.

Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. To show the strong opposition of the Tea Act, three companies containing fifty men each came through the streets in disguise dressed as Native Indians so as to prevent official interference. The men then went on to three different ships and broke open the chest containing tea, throwing them overboard, and into the sea. As the news of this event spread throughout the colonies, several groups began to perform the same act, and this became known as the Boston Tea

This quote by Thomas Jefferson was one of his very famous quotes. Because of what Mr. Jefferson said it showed the colonists that they could control the government. This fueled many rebellious acts, as the acts showed the government that the colonists were going to do anything to gain freedom. The Sons of Liberty were a very important, all patriot group that would do anything for freedom. One of the Sons of Liberty 's greatest protest was the Boston Tea Party. This act showed the government that they would do anything, even dump $1,700,000 worth of tea into the harbor for freedom. As a result of the Boston Tea Party the Coercive or Intolerable Acts were passed. These acts were to punish the colonies for their rebellious behavior and stop more of these protests.

American history is full of battles and freedom fighters. From the Boston tea party to voting rights. America fought against a king who was unfair and unjust. They may have had a civil war but it was also for the idea that rights were being taken away. The country has many amazing historical characters that made it the country it is today. This paper will discuss the Boston Tea Party, George Washington’s inaugural address, his warnings upon leaving office as well as the Boston Massacre, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and John Adams on voting rights.

One of the most important events in America's history is the Boston Tea Party. The East India Company had lost a lot of tea that the company couldn’t sell into England, so the British decided to pass the Tea Act of 1773. The act allowed the East India company to sell their tea to the American colonists without any taxes. The American colonists were angry because the act would give the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies, so the American colonists retaliated by dumping tea into the Boston Harbor. The group of American colonists who dumped the tea were the Sons of Liberty. In 2001, after September 11th, the US Congress passed the Patriot Act to fight off the threat of terrorist attacks in America. According to the

Tea Party arose from the resentment of Boston colonists towards the British which had been fueled by

The Boston Tea Party is an idea that most people have heard about. It was indeed the first significant act of rebellion in the Revolutionary war era. However, freedom always comes with a price, and the colonists knew because of their uprising that they would be sure to pay it. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.” That is exactly what the colonists knew they must do.

It was on December 1773 when American Soldiers dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor, however there were many events that led up to this event, known as the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party caused an uproar among the colonists of Boston directed at the English soldiers, and this was one of the primary causes of the American Revolution. There was a series of laws and acts passed in hopes to threaten the colonists and their chance at a self-government. The Proclamation of 1763 was passed by King George, and it blocked American travelers from traveling west of the Appalachian Mountains.(Yanak). In 1764, the Sugar Act was passed that put a tax on sugar and molasses. The colonists would smuggle the goods

the platform planks of the Tea Party and the ideals of the men who drove the American Revolution are very similar, though there are some key differences. Some of the issues the Tea Party concerns itself with, including traditional marriage and immigration, weren’t issues in revolutionary times so they aren’t part of the set of ideals explicitly laid out in documents such as the Declaration of Independence or the original Constitution. However, some of these may be implied by societal expectations of the times—it was unheard of for homosexual individuals to be open about their orientation and new immigrant groups were often not accepted by current residences of communities and industries. Also, some of the most important issues for revolutionaries,

Oh, my dear older sister, life here is awfully terrible, we don’t have a voice or any rights towards the British. I truly believe the Boston tea party that occurred week ago was a warning to the British, that we want and deserve our freedom, and we are willing to go to any lengths to achieve, even go to war. Do you know that they closed the port of Boston, and claimed it will stay close until the tea was paid for? All committees of correspondence were forbidden, and Massachusetts was ruled by General Thomas Gage and his army.

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.