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    Coercive Act Dbq

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    to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. The Intolerable Acts were the cause for the American War for Independence because the colonists felt they were being controlled with the implement of vigorous policies in the American colonies. The Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, the Act for the Impartial Administration of Justice, the Quebec Act, and the Quartering Act were all passed as a retaliation to the Boston Tea Party and gave colonists the right to react. The Boston

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    1773 the Tea Act was formally implemented. This act gave the Britain’s East India Company (shipper) the right to transport tea directly into the Colony without paying any of the regular taxes that were imposed on Colonial merchants. The dumping the tea into the colony allowed the shipper to “undercut the American merchants and monopolize the tea trade” (Brinkley 101). The consequence of this policy instigated further resentment towards the Crown and added to the belief that it was not appropriately

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    Colonist Rebellion

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    post provided this week, the colonists responded with rebellion because of the new acts that were imposed upon them by the British (Schultz, K., 2013). Their attempt to reform the American colonies contributed to the growth of the Revolutionary movement because the British tried to enforce stricter policies and laws (Schultz, K. M., 2013). The British wanted to tighten the policies over the colonial officials so that it would reduce the corruption, the British wanted control over the area of land

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    Andrews, John. “The Boston Tea Party.” December 16, 1773. Andrews, a selectman of Boston, described the event in Boston on December 16, 1773. Days prior to the sixteenth, citizens from the county and neighboring towns, held mass meetings for the purpose of discussing what measures needed to be taken regarding the landing of the tea. Stubborn consignees in New York and Philadelphia refused to approve the reshipment of tea, but Thomas Hutchinson Governor of Boston refused to concede. On December 16

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    Tea was a common and essential part of the colonists daily lives, but women were the main purchasers and consumers of imported British tea. When the Tea Act was passed in 1773, in areas of “ Edenton, North Carolina to Boston, Massachusetts, women vowed publicly not to drink tea” unless the egregious acts were repealed. “The choice by American ladies to say no to British tea had an immediate and powerful impact as in mid-eighteenth century because they were the main purchasers and consumers of imported

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    ratification of Constitution of the United States, Samuel Adams led the Sons of Liberty into the Boston Harbor. The recent passage of the Tea Act, in which King George III of Britain granted the East India Company a monopoly on all tea sales, outraged the colonists. The Sons of Liberty, disguised as native Mohawk people, boarded three separate ships and threw 342 barrels of tea into the waters below (History.com). This act of defiance, recognized as one of the first acts of civil disobedience in American

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    The Boston Tea Party was a very hectic occasion in United States History. “The American Revolution created heroes- and traitors- who shaped the birth of a new nation: the United States of America. “Taxation without representation” was a serious problem for the American colonies in the late 1700s. Great Britain imposed harsh taxes and did not give the colonists a voice in their own government. The colonists rebelled and declared their independence from Britain- the war was on.”(Somervill & Burgan

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    The American Revolution began in the United States (1775-1788), this was called The American War of Independence. There were 5 causes which were Seven Years’ war (1756-1763), sugar act (1764), stamp act (1765), Boston tea party (1773) and intolerable act (1774) in order. One of the main causes of the American Revolution was Seven Years’ war. This war was between Britain and France in 1756-63 ended with the Victoria British being deeply in death and demanding more revenue from the

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    Boston tea party During the American Revolution The Boston Tea Party refers to the political protest initiated by the Sons of Liberty on 16th December, 1773 in Boston (Savelle & Labaree, 1966). The protestors, disguised often as American Indians, dumped the entire tea shipment into the Boston Harbor sent by East India Company into the water. This protest was in reaction and showing the noncooperation towards the Tea Act enacted on 10th May, 1773. In reaction to this event, the British government

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    imposed by a Parliament wherein they were not embodied. Furthermore, the point of no return would have been the Boston Tea Party when this was a time when the state of affairs between the British and colonists became an outright uproar of irreconcilable chaos and disorder. Initially the Tea Party served as a means for a bail out for the East India Tea Company and British gains off tea products. Meanwhile, Americans were livid with the laws of the British and sought their rebellion. In which Samuel Adams

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