Revolutionary Viewpoints

When the Boston Tea Party occurred on the evening of December 16,1773, it was the culmination of many years of bad feeling between the British government and her American colonies. The controversy between the two always seemed to hinge on the taxes, which Great Britain required for the upkeep of the American colonies. Starting in 1765, the Stamp Act was intended by Parliament to provide the funds necessary to keep peace between the American settlers and the Native American population. The Stamp Act was loathed by the American colonists and later repealed by parliament.

In 1773, the British government created the Tea Act, not to raise revenue to pay off their debt from the Seven Year War, but to aid in bailing out the staggering East India Company. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies. According to History.com this act “retained the duty on imported tea at its existing rate, but, since the company was no longer required to pay an additional tax in England, the Tea Act effectively lowered the price of the East India Company’s tea in the colonies.” Tea was the prime favorite merchandise in Britain, the colonists on the other hand did not have the same views as their British cousins. With the taxes placed on to the tea, it increases their dislike of both British and tea. However instead of angry voices and violence as they...

In 1773 the British Parliament passed the Tea Act. It significantly raised taxes on the popular drink. At this point, tensions between the colonists and Britain simmered down after years of boycotts over raised taxes and what seemed like “political slavery” (Yazawa,

The Boston Tea Party was an important historical event that happened on the night of December 16th, 1773. This was a predicament that was between the British government and the American colonies. The number one priority of it dealt with taxes, which Britain was requiring American colonies to pay. In 1765, the Stamp Act was created by Parliament to provide money to make peach with the Native Americans and the American settlers. It was an act that was loathed by the colonists of America, and was repealed by parliament for many reasons. The government of Britain created other laws to maintain all the problems that were being forced upon; which later, the Boston Tea Part was focused on the Parliamentary Law. Americans were very up to date when it came to financial demands by the British Parliament. They were not blind sighted by the whole thing and just did what British said. In 1765, an organization that was kept on the down level, called the Sons and Daughters of Liberty was created for the British to boycott their products. With the start of 1773, assemblies of Massachusetts and Virginia had created the Committees of Correspondence, which was a group that was directed to communicate to any threats that was being shown by any of the American colonies. With that being said, parliament passed the Tea Act, which had a big part in the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act allowed East Indian Company to undersell colonial tea merchants in American Market. It was the start of something new.

The Boston tea party was a brief incident among many, composing, economic, and political crisis that ultimately caused a revolution. These events consisted of The French and Indian war, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Revenue Act, the Tea Act, and of course the Boston Tea Party. The incident caused by the colonies infuriated the British government therefore as punishment parliament responded to the abuse with the Coercive Acts of 1774 . When the thirteen colonies once again decided to resist the British troops revolution spread. “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” This act later on lead to the American Revolutionary War, were years later independence was

Britain decided to pull back most taxes except for the tea tax. Tea was important to the colonists

For over their first 150 years of existence, the English colonists were largely allowed to govern themselves, separate from the king’s or parliament’s authority. All of this changed at the end of the French and Indian War. Struggling from the immense amount of debt accrued from defending the colonies and fighting the French, the new king, George III, deposed the old prime minister in favor of one that would be willing to place a tighter grip on the colonies. These attempts to consolidate control of the colonies with parliament would prove disastrous, with many of the events like the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, and the Boston Tea Party being remembered today. These events and others after the war directly led to the improbable union of the thirteen colonies in war against the tyranny of the greatest empire of the world.

...ea tax with no objection. They wouldn't say yes to that, leading to the Boston Tea Party. The Bostonians, disguised as Indians, dumped chests of tea into the Atlantic. This seemed to them to be the perfect way to rally the colonists, since tea was like the universal beverage at the time. In retaliation to the colonists' misconduct, the Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts which punished the Bostonians by doing things such as shutting down the Boston area main port, and bringing the Massachusetts Government under British control.

Instead, there are presented being mercilessly shot down by the British. As this illustration spread, many colonists were angered, furthermore, the tension between the pair grew even stronger. On May 10, 1773, the tea acts were put in action. American colonists could buy no tea unless it arrived from the East India company. The East India Company wasn't doing very well, so the British decided to help. The Tea Act reduced the price on this East India tea so much that it was way below tea from other suppliers. But the colonists viewed this law as yet another means of "taxation without representation" because it meant that they couldn't purchase tea from anyone else. Their response to this was by boycotting tea goods and refusing to unload tea from ships. On December 17, 1773 In the Boston Harbor, an assembly of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians mount three British tea ships and deposited 342 chests of tea into the harbor. Parliament, outraged by the plain waste of British property, passed the Coercive Acts, (Intolerable Acts), in 1774.

The events before and after the Boston Tea Party, such as the vandalism of British property, the Boston massacre, and the colonists’ rebellious organizations were a major influence to the American Revolution because they were signs of revolt in the colonies, because they angered Britain, and because they united the colonies.