considered “just” by British Parliament, it was seen in complete disgust by the colonists on which they were placed. This all led up to the Boston Tea Party, in which men disguised as Mohawk Indians, protested The Tea Act of 1773, requiring colonists to buy only British tea, but it was heftily taxed. Defiantly they boarded British ships and threw their tea overboard, making a point to Parliament that they would not stand for this tax. Angry with this they attempted to gain more control over Massachusetts
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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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Boston Tea Party. This taxing tea rallied many Americans to fight for freedom. The colonists refused to pay the taxes on tea. Yet there was another Tea Party the night after the first one, that rallied Americans even more. King George the third wanted to tax the tea. King George wanted to tax the tea because, the tea was not getting sold, so they lowered the prices. After they lowered the prices no one was still really buying the tea so that’s when King George the third wanted to tax the tea. Although
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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 that the tea is returned
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The Boston Tea Party In 1773, the East India Company was dying. The American and Dutch smuggling business were slowly killing the company. The British had to do something fast, before the company collapsed entirely. This was known as the Tea Act of 1773. The Tea Act was basically a government bailout that reduced that amount of taxes the Company had to pay, thus in theory saving the company. This was a major blow to the American and Dutch smugglers, who depended on the high prices of the East
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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 chests of tea into
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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 because none of the colonies were a part
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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 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 started
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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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