The Boston Tea Party The Boston tea party took place on December 16, 1773 (Malaspina, 29). The Sons of Liberty, a group of colonists had tried to stop the tea from coming to Boston for weeks. The colonists saw the taxing of the tea as abuse of the rights by Great Britain (Malaspina, 7). The ship carrying the tea was the Dartmouth. The Dartmouth was an American ship but the British East Indian Company owned the tea (Malaspina, 7). Colonial merchants were only allowed to sell this tea. If they
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The Boston Tea Party Imagine 1.5 million dollars worth of tea being dumped into the Atlantic Ocean. That’s pretty much what happened the day of the Boston Tea Party. The day before, 3 ships (the Beaver, the Dartmouth, and the Eleanor) sailed into the harbor. Each ship carried more than 100 chests of British Black Tea. On December 16, 1773, the day of this rebellion, colonists disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and dumped loads of tea into the sea. The news about the Boston Tea Party
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The Boston Tea Party was a turn point in the revolution and is still one of the most symbolizing acts done during the revolution. The Boston Tea Party was an event that happened in Boston because the tea had some taxes that were lowered but not removed. The Sons of Liberty were in charge of dumping over 300 boxes of tea in Boston Harbor. This was caused due to various reasons including the tax without representation issue in which the British were taxing the colonies without them having any representation
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Here in Massachusetts we are planning a rebellion known as the Boston Tea Party.We are doing the Boston Tea Party because the British are taxing us unfairly and they are making laws that we don’t even agree with. One thing that we dislike about the king is that he is always raising the taxes on the tea.The reason he had raised the taxes was because the french and Indian war was costly so he had to raise money by raising the taxes. We already have a crew of about 116 people. For us not to be
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Boston, A Party for 60ish It was December 16, 1773, and several ships were docked at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston. They were filled with merchandise from the British East India Company. One of the many commodities the ships had brought to the people of Boston was tea. Tea, during these times, carried a very specific tax; that tax was pointed towards the colonies. If the colonies had any say in the way they were taxed, things this night may have gone very differently. In addition to the grievances against
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I am 13 years old, and my name is Victoria. I was born, and presently live in Boston, but my family came here from England to start a new life for themselves, and soon their family; me. I walk around my city, my home, and I observe that many different people of many different backgrounds reside in my town with me. I names like Puritans, and Quakers, and I often wonder why we are all the same, but labeled differently. My mother tells me that we all have different labels, but we all worship the same
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The Effect of Early Colonial Legislation The early settlers in the New World were subject to many different laws and acts of legislation passed by the British government. Most of which were meant to help the King and England rather than support the colonies ability to be a free and self-governing people. Some of the legislation like the Stamp Act was passed to help England recoup its losses from the French Indian War. Although some like the Coercive Act contained a series of legislative tactics
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Michael Conger AMH 2010 http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/sons-of-liberty Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum Sons of Liberty This internet assignment that I will be writing will focus on the Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American colonists that was created to protect the rights of the colonist and to fight taxation that was coming from the British. One of their biggest contributions was that they protested against the Stamp Act which was created to tax printed
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Upon returning to Boston, Hancock gradually took over the House of Hancock as his uncle's health failed, becoming a full partner in January 1763.[18][19][20] He became a member of the Masonic Lodge of St. Andrew in October 1762, which connected him with many of Boston's most
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