Great Britian and the colonies' relationship didn't start of as tumultious as it ultimately became. Upon the colonists first arrival to the new world everything seemed fine. They felt as if they were like any other British colonist the only difference being they had a large ocean seperating them and their motherland. As time went on though that ocean proved to be increasing more divisive of the 2 worlds. The colonists began to question whether their peers back in Great Britian still saw them as “one of their own.” This concern continued to fester as the the British Parliament began heavily taxing all their goods and commodities. Then only a few years later shooting down five colonist during, what we now know, as the Boston Massacre. The colonists became so upset that they began retaliating with acts of vengenace such as the the Boston Tea party. Ultimately the taxes, the Boston Massacre, and the the Boston Tea Party put together strained the relationship between the 2 colonies so much so that they ended up finding themselves in a revolution. Leading to the Revolution, Britian passed many taxes that outraged the citizens. The first of which being the Sugar Act was …show more content…
They were going to dress as Mowhawk Indians and head over to The Boston Harbor in the middle of the night. Once there, they were going to dump thousands of dollars worth of East India Company tea in to the harbor. We now know this event as the Boston Tea Party (1773). Great Britian was forced to close the harbor due to the horid stench, but they continued to keep it closed until all of the tea was paid for. The British retaliated by putting in place more taxes and acts which we disscussed previously as “The Intolerable Acts.” Which were really a reinforcement of old taxes such as the Coercive Act as well as the adition of of a few more such as the Boston Port