THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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They were angry with the ship owner because he refused to pay a tax to use the port in Boston.
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They tried to hold a committee meeting, but the members could not come to a peaceful decision.
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They felt disrespected by the British and wanted to damage their property, such as tea.
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They wanted to return the tea to London, but the governor wanted to make them keep the tea and pay a tax.
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Detailed explanation-1: -To protest British Parliament’s tax on tea. “No taxation without representation.” The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor . The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly.
Detailed explanation-2: -American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation, ” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists.
Detailed explanation-3: -The British didn’t think the colonists would be upset about the Act since by letting the East India Company not pay taxes, the price of tea would go down. But the colonists were angry because the Act would give the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Professor Labaree asserts that the Boston Tea Party marked the point of no return in deteriorating British-colonial relations during the 1770’s. When George III’s ministry rashly retaliated with the Coercive Acts, the colonies united in their sympathy for Boston and their distrust of London.
Detailed explanation-5: -On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of men disguised as Mohawk Indians and who called themselves the Sons of Liberty, boarded three ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.