Essay On Boston Tea Party

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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some described as native Americans, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, destroyed an entire shipment of Tea sent by the(East India co.). They boarded the ship and threw crates of tea into the (Boston Harbor). The british government responded very harshly and the episode and escaladed into the American Revolution. The Tea Party became an iconic event of American history , and other political protests such as the Tea Party movement after 2010 explicitly refer to it. “The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to …show more content…
“When three tea ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver, arrived in Boston Harbor, the colonists demanded that the tea be returned to England. After Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused, Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the “tea party” with about 60 members of the Sons of Liberty, his underground resistance group. The British tea dumped in Boston Harbor on the night of December 16 was valued at some $18,000.”http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-boston-tea-party
They mostly have to get the most things that they need and they don’t like to drinking water the most of them will not drink the water some of them will not they think there is some thing in the water that might kill them or get them sick so some will die from this kind of thing so they will die at the end of the rain seasons they have to stay in the houses so they will not get sick. If they wanted to drink water they had to put whiskey in it or tea but if you remember right they didnt have the system we do now we have water sofeners or purifires, we are so lucky to have the system we