The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party was caused my angry colonist in Boston. The people of Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts were fuming with British Government and the East India Company for controlling all of the tea that was coming into the colonies at this time. When the colonist tried refusing the tea being shipped into the colonies the officials ignored their protest against the tea. So an assembly colonist boarded the three ships coming in and destroyed the tea on the ships by throwing it all in the Boston Harbor.

The Tea Party was a result of a resistance movement throughout British America on the Tea Act. The Tea Act had been passed my British Parliament in 1773. The colonist didn’t like the Tea Act for a lot of reason but the main one was it dishonored their right of no taxation without representation. Three other colonies had stopped the unloading of the ships of tea, but Boston could not. In Boston they had to deal with the Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson, which refused to have the ships of tea sent back the Great Britain.

The Boston Tea Party was very important to the development of the American Revolution. Due to the Coercive Acts and other acts the colonist started more protesting and making the first Continental Congress. The Coercive Acts were a number of acts that were put into order to try to restore order in Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party. This group petitioned the British Monarchy. This helped start the American Revolutionary War.

I really like learning about the Boston Tea Party because I think the colonist had a lot of guts to dump all of the tea in the harbor. For the result of the tea party the colonist the British were forced to take initiative and enforced more acts for the colonies. That didn’t stop them though. Soon after all the protesting the colonist started the American Revolutionary War to fight for their freedom.

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