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    The Boston Tea Party was the first significant act of defiance by American colonists and is a defining event in American history. The Boston Tea Party phases five phase starting with the body of the people. The body of the people consist of Samual Adams and over 11,000 men and women in Boston. The second phase was described as the final straw because the people were getting tired of the british at this point. The secret plan was about taking action, the symbolism of the indian dress, and the amount

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    September 2, 2015: Today is the day in which I begin my journey of digging deeper into the Boston Tea Party. Surely it wasn’t them just pushing tea off of boats. What drove them to that point, why dress up as Indians, was this truly the first major step in Americans gaining their freedom? While I am researching the Boston Tea Party I hope to answer these questions at the least but the more the better, for a title I’m thinking about making it Defiance of the Patriots. Sounds heroic. Sept. 3: I went

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    Boston Tea Party On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohican Indians, boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard, in direct defiance of the British for imposing taxes on the colonials, which had no representation in Parliament. This act of defiance laid the ground work for much of the American Revolution as the colonists grew tired of British rule. It also hardened the feelings of the British against the Americans

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    Actually, there was no violence at all after the Boston Tea Party. As most people that commit a heinous crime leave the scene, the people who participated in the Tea Party also left after they committed the crime. They did not stick around to talk about what they just did, they went to their homes and laid low. One of the members mentioned, “We then quietly retired

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    There are three ways that the colonist protested against the British which are the Boston Massacre, The Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party. One of the ways the colonist protested against the British is the Boston Massacre. They were mad that the soldiers because they took their jobs. The colonist were also mad at the British for stealing their goods from shops. They were also mad about the taxes. The colonists protested by a mob moving toward the customhouse where the British taxes were collected

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    The Tea Party

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    level. Fieldwork observations and interviews among different Tea Party sectors in the country were supplemented with data of the demographic and attitudes of Tea Party activists and sympathizers from national surveys, data of national funding and support organizations, and information on the involvement and philosophy from various local and regional Tea Party websites. The personal interviews from average citizens active in their local Tea Party provided knowledge on the basis of the growth and issues

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    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that took place on December 16, 1773 in Boston Harbor in Boston, Massachusetts. The Sons of Liberty led by Samuel Adams, dressed as Mohawk Indians destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent from the East India Company by throwing chests full of tea into the Boston Harbor. George Hewe’s, an eyewitness of the event writes in his journal, “In about three hours from the time we went on board, we had thus broken and thrown overboard every tea chest to be found

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    were talking about The Boston Tea Party taxes that would forever shape and change America. Many of the newspapers, pamphlets and public coffee shops were the news media. Early 1773 was the new act, The Tea Act, which caused more ruckuses. The East India Company needed to make money although they were the only company selling the tea in the colonies (7). The east India Company trying to eliminate the middle man they lower the cost of the newly found drink. The tea act however made many of the colonist

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    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

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    The Intolerable Acts were a set of British Laws passed by Parliament in 1774. Four of the laws passed were created to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. The first act closed the port of Boston, the second act put an end to the Massachusetts Constitution, the third act forced all trials in Massachusetts to be held in Britain, and the fourth act forced colonists to feed and shelter British soldiers. The fifth act was the only law not created to punish Massachusetts. Instead, it extended

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