The Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea party had the greatest effect in leading the colonists towards fighting for independence for britain, Why was the Boston Tea Party a big impact in American history? The boston tea party was a big impact in history because the tea was dumped and wasted millions of dollars. So the course of American history. Some events leading up to the Boston tea party were the stamp act, the sugar and townshend act’’. The Americans would not drink tea that had tax on…
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“The Boston tea party was a political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston Massachusetts. This fame act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. British Parliament adjusted duties with the passes of the tea act in 1773. While in Charleston,New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments.On December 15 1773,the beaver the last of the three ships sailing from London,England arrived at Griffin's wharf in Boston. The Beaver was delayed due on a case of smallpox which…
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The Boston Tea Party Jamie Boehman HIS 108 Kevin Dorth 11/20/12 | Few uprisings in American History are as well-known as the Boston Tea Party. Aside from popular images of colonists dressed as Indians dumping tea into the Boston Harbor, the Boston Tea Party marks the turning point between the American colonists and the British government. It helped to deepen the divide among the Patriots and the Loyalists, bringing the 13 colonies one step closer to declaring their independence.…
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The Boston Tea Party was something that led to the American revolution. The tea party happen on December 16, 1773. American colonist protest aginist British on tea tax. The Boston Tea Party happened a couple years after the Boston massacre. People in that day drank about 2 to 3 cups of tea a day everyday. It was around 2 million pounds of tea throught out 3 million people. About 90% of the tea the colonist drank was smuggled in. The tax paid was lower than what they where actually paying. Three ships…
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What were the causes of the Boston Tea Party? There were many causes of the Boston Tea Party. Boston Tea Party (1773) It was a protest by a group of Massachusetts colonists, disguised as Mohawks and led by Samuel Adams, against the Tea Act and, mainly against "taxation without representation". The Tea Act passed by the British Parliament, withdrew duty on tea exported to the colonies. 2. Exactly what happened at the Boston Tea Party of 1773? The Boston Tea party was, like I said, when Massachusetts…
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The Boston Tea Party Vakula Penmetsa Grade 5 Introduction: The Boston Tea Party was one of the many famous events in the revolutionary war and in American History. This action taken by the colonists is considered treason. It was a very brave thing to do. There were more than 300 chests of tea dumped in the harbor that night, and the colonists had to take out three different ships. They worked hard all night, and in the end they accomplished their goal. This brave action, was taken by the son’s…
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“Ain’t No Party like a Boston Party!”~ unknown (The Boston Tea Party). The Boston Tea Party had a very big impact on United States History. The Boston Tea Party was on December 16, 1774 in the Harbor of Boston (Boston Tea Party History). This event started the American Revolution that soon lead to the United States to be a free country. In 1763 Britain's army defeated the French in the French and Indian War. The war was fought mainly in North America. The war cost a lot of money for the British…
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The Boston Tea Party (referred as “The destruction of the tea in Boston” ) by John Adams was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston on December 16, 1773. There were a lot of fanatics in the Boston Tea Party. People would smuggle tea, and tax collectors would get tarred and feathered. During the Boston Tea Party the Sons of Liberty dumped 92,000 pounds (about 46 tons) of tea in the Boston Harbor. That much tea is worth $2.6 million today. The Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as…
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16, 1773 in Boston Massachusetts a band of American colonists boarded three ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard in protest of the British tax. This event is know as the “Boston Tea Party”. The Boston Tea Party pushed Britain and America closer to war, which started the American Revolution in 1775. Joanne Freeman from Yale University stated that the American colonists just wanted to make a point that the tax was bad and the colonists were going to show that by destroying the tea. This evidence…
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If you were in Boston at the time in colonial times would you have participated in the Boston Tea Party? If I was in colonial times in Boston I would have participated in the Boston Tea Party. Because I know that punishment would be sent our way, but I wouldn’t care. If it is a cause that I believe with I will follow threw with it to the end. The tax imposed on the colonists made them rebel against the British Parliament. "They boarded British ship Dartmouth docked in the Boston Harbor, Dressed…
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