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    Boston Tea Party Research Paper

    Boston tea party The article I researched was the Boston tea party and I found a lot of interesting information. The Boston tea party was when patriot went over to the ships cracked open the crates of tea and poured the tea into the boston harbor. The tea party happened December 16, 1773 and it was at griffin’s wharf. No people died during the tea party. There were a lot of people watching while it happened but nobody cooperated after it happened when people were asking questions. Before the tea

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    The boston tea party was a the most important rights movement in america and the reason for that is because it gave us freedom and independence . This is important for us today because without freedom and independence we would be another part of Britain and that would change our entire lifestyle. The boston tea party was when the sons of liberty decided to stand up to the british on the idea of “no taxation without representation” and they disguised themselves and they raided three boats and broke

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    16th Boston Tea Party Dbq

    Whether you believe it was a justified act of defiance or the destruction of private property, the December 16th Boston Tea Party was inevitable. Anyone that has been bullied can relate to being pushed to act. As colonists, we have endured the obligations of being taxed without representation and King George III further insults us by having a low quality product being pushed through the Tea Act. As colonists, we are not fooled by Parliament’s ploy and it is their incompetence that has brought us

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    Boston Tea Party Research Paper

    Boston Tea Party- 1773 In Boston Harbor, 50 men, Samuel Adams and other patriots, decided to revolt against the tea tax. They dressed as Native Americans and waited for the ships containing the tea. They boarded the ships and dumped all the tea they could in the water. In the end after a couple of hours they had dumped 342 chests containing about 90, 000 pounds of tea, worth about a million dollars today. This event is called the Boston Tea Party because. Britain needed money after the Indian

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    Boston Tea Party Research Paper

    The Boston Tea Party was an event that took place in Boston, on December, 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party was an act of civil disobedience. The angry colonists just wanted their voice to be heard without hurting anyone. Did it work? Yes, indeed. The Boston Tea Party was caused by the angry colonists, who were mad at the king, who passed more taxes on them, and as a result there was intolerable acts. Tea was popular in the colonies that they often brewed tea twice a day. The colonists loved their

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    Boston Tea Party Research Paper

    Americans boarded ships and dumped entire shipments of tea into Boston harbor. Although this is as deep as knowledge of the Boston Tea Party goes for some, the real reasons the Boston Tea Party occurred were vastly more complex. You could pin the blame simply to the Tea Act of 1773, or you could broadly state “taxes” as the cause. But truly, these things, along with a few other stressors, working in tandem, were responsible for the Boston Tea Party. To really understand the events which occurred, one

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    The Boston Tea Party: An Act of Terrorism From the 9/11 attacks to the shootings in Charleston, there have recently been several incidents that are considered acts of terrorism, but not many people have taken the nation’s earlier history into account. One of the most significant events that caused much controversy was the Boston Tea Party in 1776. Some would say that they were justified to do what they did, but others would think that it was a terrorist attack despite the fact that it ultimately

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    The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British solders. On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. The commanding officer at the Customs House, ordered his men to fix their bayonets and join the guard outside the building.The colonists responded by throwing

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    Colonists Breaking from Great Britain

    One of the reasons that the colonists decided to break from Great Britain was because they believed that they were not given certain political rights that every person should be given. Another reason that the colonists decided to break from Great Britain was because they felt that Parliament was denying them of basic economic rights such as putting restrictions on trade and imposing unfair taxes upon them. Finally, another main reason that the colonists decided to break from Great Britain was because

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    of the King of England. This didn’t seem to work for the American people so they did everything in their power to help themselves gain freedom. Because of this came a lot of battles and acts of boycotting. For this reason the stamp act, sugar act, Boston tea party, and so many acts happened. There were some pros and cons of it all. Some pros were the fact that we all came together as one to fight for our right. We gained freedom after the war. Although to every pro there was a con. Some of the

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