THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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The British Government put a high tax on tea and no one could afford it.
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Sam Adam’s parting words may have signaled the beginning of the tea party.
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The American colonists dumped tea in the Boston Harbor to protest being taxed without representation.
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The British Government cracked down on colonists with harsher laws after the Boston Tea Party.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Colonists objected to the Tea Act believing it violated their rights as Englishmen to “no taxation without representation", that is, to be taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a parliament in which they were not represented.
Detailed explanation-2: -It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea (which had been an example of taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. 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.
Detailed explanation-4: -American colonists were outraged over the tea tax. They believed the Tea Act was a tactic to gain colonial support for the tax already enforced. The direct sale of tea by agents of the British East India Company to the American colonies undercut the business of colonial merchants.
Detailed explanation-5: -What message did the Boston Tea Party send to the British government? The message that the Boston Tea Party sent to the British was that they wanted nothing to do with the British and they have had enough of their acts passed by Parliament.