Boston Tea Party

br The Boston Tea Party Abtract The Boston Tea Party was protested by American colonists . They stood up against

Great Britain . In this i will closely examine the boston tea party The hard-fought American Revolution against Britain (1775-1783 ) was the first

modern war of liberation against a colonial power .The thirteen American colonies

wanted to be free from rule by Great Britain . The war was resulted with the victory of

this thirteen colonies , and Americans reached to the independance .American

Revolution is a result of forcing

American Colonies to pay more and more taxes by

King of England , George III , and this will be the starting point of a new civilization

There were too many acts before the revolution get started . These are Sedicion Act

Alien Act , Quebec Act , Tea Act and Sugar Act . The most important act is Tea Act The occurrence of the Boston Tea Party on 16 December 1773 was perhaps the most

significant event in the period of disagreements between the British Government and

American Colonists from 1763 to 1774 . It effectively came about when Lord North

decided to allow the East India Tea Company to sell tea in America through agents

rather than the traditional public auction system . For financial and political reasons

the Colonists opposed this new development and the crisis exploded at the port of

Boston when 90 ,000 pounds of tea were thrown into the harbour . Whether justified or

not , the Colonists felt the British Government were taking away their right to govern

themselves From that point until mid 1772 , The Revolution was still unlikely calmer heads had

prevailed despite the undying efforts of Massachusetts native and cousin of John

Adams , Samuel Adams . Sam Adams traveled throughout Massachusetts and the Colonies establishing what he called Committees of Correspondence and called for a

formal separation from Britain . These Committees were designed to provide a

superior communications system between the separate Colonies . Then beginning in

June 1772 , a number of events took place which carried all Americans whether they

willed it or not , across the line from malcontent , to revolution , and eventual freedom

One evening in June , near the port of Providence , in Rhode Island the British

schooner Gaspee grounded herself and was set upon by a group of Colonists who put

ashore English crew and then burn her to the waterline . In the following months

Virginia and a number of other colonies establish official Committees of Correspondence in to keep other colonies appraised of English activities in their

respective lands . In May the English passed the Tea Tax , granting a virtual monopoly

to the East India Tea Company in to bail it out of debt and thereby avoid a

massive domestic economic tragedy . The tea is not only taxed higher than before , but

now the East India Tea Company is able to price gouge without any threat of

competition or governmental retribution . All over America , mass meetings are held in

regard to what should be done about the tax . Following two...