THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Sam Adams called a meeting and 7, 000 people attended.
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The protest represented the idea of “No taxation without representation.”
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Coffee was replaced for the tea by the colonists.
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In current value, the tea that was dumped would be worth $1.7 million.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The phrase taxation without representation describes a populace that is required to pay taxes to a government authority without having any say in that government’s policies. The term has its origin in a slogan of the American colonials against their British rulers: “Taxation without representation is tyranny."1.
Detailed explanation-2: -"No Taxation Without Representation” is the people’s belief that if they are not present or represented within the government of the ruling empire or nation, then they have no right to be taxed.
Detailed explanation-3: -In short, many colonists believed that as they were not represented in the distant British parliament, any taxes it imposed on the colonists (such as the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts) were unconstitutional, and were a denial of the colonists’ rights as Englishmen.
Detailed explanation-4: -The correct answer is Massachusetts Assembly. It is a slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen Colonies, which was one of the major causes of the American Revolution.