Griffin’s Wharf, Boston Harbor. For nearly three hours, the Sons of Liberty 342 threw chests of tea overboard. This day is now known as the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party is an important day in history. The Boston Tea Party was fueled by the colonist’s anger. After the French and Indian war, Britain was in a huge debt so the Parliament decided to tax the colonist to pay for the cost of the war. The colonist believed that these taxes on sugar, stamps, paper, lead, oil, glass, and tea were unfair
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The Boston Tea Party Movement the boston tea party, december 16, 1773. on this day many years ago more than 180 men went to the bay at boston harbor. as a ct against taxing tea they dumped 92000 pounds of tea. that night changed history forever. could it also been that start to the monopoly ban? why were the americans to angry about this? this movement changed us today because it was the start to the american revolution, us getting our freedom. they passed the tea act May 10, 1773. the taxation
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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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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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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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protest known as the Boston Tea Party took place on the evening of December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts. The political protest was a demonstration of rebellion orchestrated by the Sons of Liberty in order to protest the Tea Act. The royal governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, allowed three ships- The Dartmouth, The Eleanor, and The Beaver- to enter the Boston Harbor. The ships carried tea to sell to the colonists on behalf of the British East India Company. Many Boston colonists demanded
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The Boston Tea Party was a day that the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped the British tea into the harbor of Boston on December 16, 1773. The Sons of Liberty was a group of colonists that wanted freedom from England. The Tea Act was a law the king of Britain, King George III, enforced on the colonists in 1773 that made the colonists pay taxes on any tea from England. The king didn’t let the colonists buy tea from any other country. It led up to the Revolutionary war
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Article 1: The Boston Tea party was a major event that occurred during the American Revolution. It all started when the British decided to make a new act called, the Tea Act, which made tea cost more. So many of the colonists got mad, because of this act, especially the Sons of Liberty, which was a group of men led by Samuel Adams and this group wanted freedom. So on the night of December 16 1773 Samuel Adams and the sons of liberty dressed up as Indians, and boarded 3 British ships and threw 342
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Rose Moss Concerned Citizen BOSTON- The Boston Tea Party was unjustified because the colonist had no right to dispose of the tea, trespassed onto British ships, the colonist should have just paid their taxes. Therefore the Bostonian whigs (a man or woman who fought against the Crown) should have been punished for their crimes and remembered as thieves. The Boston Tea Party was an act of treason and rebellion against the King of England on December 16, 1773. The party involved was the Sons Of Liberty
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freedom from the British. These acts were laws put in place to punish Massachusetts for resistance and the Boston Tea Party. One of the Intolerable Acts was the Boston Port Act. This act was to discontinue the shipping of goods, wares and merchandise with the Port of Boston. It became a law on March 31, 1774. It was an act King George III put in place as a response to the Boston Tea Party. The Port was one of the main sources of supplies for Massachusetts. Other colonies sent supplies over as a
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