Sammy lived in Boston. And he loved to drink tea. But one day something happened That made him angry. A king in a faraway land said From now on every time Someone drinks a cup of tea They must give me a dime. This did not seem fair to Sammy. The king lived so far away Why should he care what Sammy drank? And why should Sammy pay? Lots of people agreed with Sammy There was a lot of frustration displayed People made speeches with words like taxation and representation So Sammy got some friends together And so the rebellion began. They knew where the king kept all his tea And they came up with a very clever plan. Sammy was a little worried That they’d all be recognised. So they dressed up as red Indians And then went out disguised. The tea
In 1773 parliament passed the tea act in which the British pay less for tax to ship places. This made the prices of tea lower from Britain. Since Boston's tea would be more expensive nobody would buy it from them. The tea act was just another problem adding up between the colonists and britain. This made the colonists want to be independent from Britain. The colonists decided to rebel and dumb three hundred and forty two chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The act was given the name the Boston Tea Party. Most of the British thought of the Boston Tea Party as an act of terrorism. Really the Boston Tea Party was just another step to independence for the colonists.
Night, The colonist were disguised as indians dumping the tons of tea. This act was to to help with financial problems.
Since King George taxed tea in the Townshend Act and the Tea Act all the colonists rebelled. As you know the tea act taxed tea twice. In response the Sons of Liberty dressed up as American Indians and painted there faces so none of the British recognized them, because at this time Sam Adams wad a warrant out for his arrest and he was a much wanted man. They went onto the ships late one night and dumped 45 tons of tea into the Boston Harbor. This caused the water to change a different color which it is currently still. This rebellion was known as the Boston Tea Party, and everyone still knows about it
This is significant because if actually collected, the tax would have destroyed a large part of the rum industry. This was extreme compared to the Sugar Act, when passed by Parliament, because the Sugar Act cut the previous tax on molasses in half. However, the government promised stricter enforcement in 1764, and the writing of the bill made it clear that the it’s purpose was not to regulate trade but to raise revenue. Both acts were intended just for the colonies, but the Sugar Act was less justifiable to the colonists. Native English were not being taxed in the same way the colonists were. The Molasses Act was focused on trade, which was specific to the colonies because of their location. However, the Sugar Act was just to raise money after the French and Indian War. Native English were not being taxed equally. This caused outrage and strain on the relationship between the colonies and England because the colonists felt they were taxed
Throughout history, rebellions have occurred in attempts to solve issues of discontent caused by wants or needs that were not met. Bacon’s Rebellion, the Stono Rebellion, the uprising of the Paxton Boys, and the Regulator Movement all represent situations of this kind. For Nathaniel Bacon and the Paxton Boys it was conflict of security; they were not receiving adequate protection from the natives. For the slaves and the western Carolinians, it was an issue of freedom and injustice.They resented the unfair treatment they experienced and wanted this inequality to change. These events represented just four in a long history of American conflicts and oppression where, as Bacon, the slaves, the Paxton Boys, and the Carolinians demonstrate, one
Many accounts of Shay’s Rebellion credit the insurgents’ unhappiness and anger to their debts, but that is not true. In fact, many of the most prominent rebels were in the top twenty percent of wealth in their respective towns. The “debt” explanation was and is used to invalidate the rebels and their cause. Instead, the cause of their malcontent was the newly established government of Massachusetts.
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).
This was just the start of many more rebellions to come where common people fight. The main issues for all the settlers involved in the rebellion was that the government was being unresponsive to the people's opinion. The rebellion targeted Native Americans and even though they came across peaceful Indians they still massacred them on site.Then once they were returning in June of 1676 Bacon and his army demanded authority to wage war against all the Indians. This was granted by Berkeley soon he began to have second thoughts and called Bacon’s men back. Then the 130 armed men came back and ready to overthrow Berkeley, forcing him to flee and leaving the capital to be burned down. After all the tragedy in the colony in 1677 Bacon died of dysentery and then his followers disappeared. This all may seem very cruel and it was, but all of this revealed what could happen to a society that was under huge amounts of pressure. This was an outburst of anger from the planters. If only the government at the time was more responsive to the colonies at the time they wouldn't have had all this built up anger towards the wrong people.
Before Bacon arrived in 1674, frontier families were just barely getting by. The weather was bad leading to less crop harvest and taxes were high. The colonists grew angry with the government, saying the neighboring Indians should be removed (“Saint or Sinner?”). The colonists at once take the reins and form an army. However, Gov. Berkeley says they must not have a commander, or go against the Indians (“First American Rebel”). Bacon arrives in North America at just the perfect time, in his eyes.
The Americans stressed that they should be treated like the other British people. This quarrel led to something that had never happened in American history, the colonists learned to come together against a common enemy, consequently, coming up with the slogan, “no taxation without representation”. One could say that this was one of the biggest things that led to the revolution war. Also, the French and Indian War, caused the American soldiers to come to a realization that they had less liberty than the Englishmen. After all these events, one would think it is safe to say that America would never be the same. Now, stated earlier in this body, one of the major causes for the revolution was, the taxing of the colonies by the British empire. Britain thought they could be clever, by cutting down the price on tea thinking that it would cause the people to accept taxation without consent (Tindall/SHI 190). Disappointingly, for the British that is, the people in Boston chose liberty over cheap tea bags (Tindall/Shi 190). On a chilly December day, disguised patriots loaded three British ships and threw all the tea into the
When the tax on distilled liquors was passed in 1791, people were upset and they thought that they had no representation. They did not agree with the fact that the government had taxed them and did not even consider what they would feel about it. The people knew that there should be no taxation without representation and the majority of the farmers made their living off of whiskey and so they were not pleased to hear about the tax. The people were so angry that they refused to pay the tax. In April of 1794, a U.S. Marshall was sent to arrest the men who did not pay and 500 armed rebels attacked the house of US tax inspector, general John Neville to make their message loud and clear.
It was an evening just like every other trying to live through the day without being attacked and holding down the town. Once the darkness hit that was the cue to go to bed so everybody went to bed and had a drink to help them relax. It was a quiet night and everybody was sleeping for the long day of training ahead. Soon little did we know a guy named Paul Revere was on a very important mission to tell the colonists in Concord. When he arrived, he first went to warn Adams and Hancock. At first they didn’t listen to him after a few knocks because they didn’t believe him and they went back to sleep. So he went to go warn other colonists and minute men to get ready for a battle because the British are coming. After he warned a lot of people he went back to Adams and Hancock's house to see if they were ready to leave so they didn’t get captured by the British. It turns out that they were still sleeping and that the guards never woke them up. Finally Paul Revere convinced them to leave. They got about a mile away when the British came John Adams said “I forgot the smoked fish we need to go back.” So they go back and they get captured just for smoked fish.
rebellion was against the taxes on tea and America won against England. There was another
There are many occurrences of rebellion in the long history of the United States, but none more important than the struggle of the colonists as they wrestled with the British for control over their own destiny. The colonists decided that enough was enough and that something had to be done. Great Britain had held control over the colonies with an iron fist, which only helped to strengthen the colonists’ hatred towards the British. Not every nation is perfect, but when things start taking a turn for the worse, it’s only a matter of time before one person finally speaks out against the leadership. All it took for this rebellion to begin was for one to person to share
The American Revolution, also known as the War for Independence, was the historic war between the colonies of the future “United States,” and Great Britain. The colonist of the US were discontent with the treatment they were receiving from the crown in England. They were being brutally taxed by the King, but had no representation in Parliament at all. The King enacted many taxes on every day materials such as tea, newspaper, and sugar, that Englishman in the mother-country would never be taxed on. As a result of the taxes, many uproars and riots occurred between the English Army and the colonists. These events occurring in sequential order ultimately led to the ‘shot heard round the world’ at The Battle of Lexington, or better known as the start of the American Revolution.