Boston Port Act

The Boston Port Act “AN ACT to discontinue, in such manner, and for or such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, landing or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbour, of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America.” The British government started taxing various things that were being shipped to America such as paper and glass. Most important to the cause of the Boston Port Act was that the British were taxing tea that

According to the Webster Dictionary, intolerable means “Unable to be Endured” That means the Intolerable acts were so bad that they weren't able to be endured. There were five acts including the Quartering act, the Quebec act, the Massachusetts Government act, the Administration of Justice act, and the Boston Port act. All of these acts severely wounded the colonists, taking away their ability to trade, live in their own home, obtain new land, and even have their own government. it it it it it it

and myself passed the Quartering Act earlier this year as the fourth and final act in the “Coercive Acts” or “Intolerable Acts” as they have become to be known as. Surely you and the other colonists are upset by the strict regulations that we have placed on your livelihood but you must know that they were necessary. Last December, the Bostonian colonists participated in a grievous offense against their home nations when they dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. We have not ignored your

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

Thesis: I believe that the Boston Tea Party was a fair protest by the colonists because the King of England was using the colonists for profit, and not treating them like real people by not listening to their outcries for help. Thus, the Boston Tea Party was the only way to get the King’s attention and bring attention to how unfair the acts were to other colonists. What did the Tea Act say? (1) The Tea Act said two things. First, it stated that the amount of actions needed to go through customs

referred to as the Boston Tea Party. This started off when the East India Company had a superfluous supply of tea that nobody was buying. As a result, they lowered the price of the tea and sent it to America for the colonists to buy. This was called the Tea Act. The colonists weren't stupid and immediately recognized it as a hidden tax. They were extremely outraged and a secret group called the Sons of Liberty got the idea of throwing out the tea into the Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party had a prodigious

The Coercive Acts was formed by the British Parliament to punish the Americans in Boston, Massachusetts, for the destroying the tea of the East India Company. The British needed money so they taxed the Americans to help them get money for the French and Indian War. This outraged the colonist because they didn’t like being taxed without being represented. The colonist wore Native Americans attire and dumped the bags of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British viewed the retaliation of the Americans

The Boston Tea Party and America’s Independence Throughout the course of history there have been many events leading up to the independence of America. Some of them were small, whereas others were much more significant. One of the more important events was the Boston Tea Party. This was when the colonists, in anger, boarded a ship carrying many chests of fine teas, and hurled them overboard. The Boston Tea Party marked the first act of open resistance to British rule. The Boston Tea Party alone

9/11. We began to be much more vigilant looking at every aspect of transportation from enhancing our airline security, railroad to include maritime operations. One particular area of focus is our ports and how we support our trade and make it safer against the threat of another terrorist attack. The ports are extremely vital to the U.S. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 14 percent of U.S. counties that are adjacent to the coast produce 45 percent of the nation's gross domestic

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