Wendy Warner Intro to American Government William Schweers February 7, 2012 “Tea Party” The name “Tea Party” is a reference to the Boston Tea Party, a protest by colonists who objected to a British tax on tea in 1773 and demonstrated by dumping British tea taken from docked ships into the harbor. Some commentators have referred to the Tea in “Tea Party” as the backronym “Taxed Enough Already”. The Tea Party movement is a political movement in America aimed at clearly communicating to Washington its displeasure with government spending. The Tea Party movement has no central leadership, but is composed of a loose affiliation of national and local groups that determine their own platforms and agendas. The Tea Party movement has been cited as an example of grassroots political activity, although it has been described as an example of astroturfing.
They ended up throwing 90,000 pounds of tea overboard. They did this because British made a new tax on tea and gave a monopoly on all tea to the British East India Company. Because of this event, England became upset with the colonists and passes the Intolerable acts. Another major cause to the Revolution
They raised taxes from 10-50% and starved the populace to get the maximum profits. Nevertheless, the company continued to suffer financially, and influenced Parliament to pass the Tea Act in 1773 to lift import duties on tea shipped to the American colonies, which ultimately lead to the American War of Independence in April 1775. John Hancock was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of Massachusetts. Hancock began his political career in Boston as a protégé of Samuel Adams, an influential local politician, though the two men later became estranged.
For many Europeans, Chinese products such as silk and porcelain were extremely coveted. In the case of Britain, Chinese tea became a central part of Britain’s national identity. By 1785, British tea imports had reached over fifteen million pounds, and one tenth of British revenue came from Chinese tea taxes. However, as western trade expanded in China during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Manchu leaders became increasingly concerned for China’s national security. Viewing the increased prevalence of foreign traders as a potentially destabilizing force, the Qing
In the ensuing months, mobs boarded East India Company tea ships in New York and Annapolis, preventing the landing of any tea. Colonists up and down the coast of North America continued to boycott East India Company tea. The Boston Tea Party had created a crisis between the colonists and Parliament. British officials condemned the action as vandalism and passed the Coercive Acts (1774), which curtailed self-government in Massachusetts and closed Boston's port until the colony paid for the tea. These harsh measures generated support and sympathy for the Boston radicals throughout the colonies.
The Boston Tea Party On December 16, 1773, an action called The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by the Sons of Liberty (Boston colonists) in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts against the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported in to the colonies. The Boston Thea Party arose from several issues confronting the British Empire: High taxes on tea, the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre and the officials in Boston refused to send back the three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain. What the Sons of Liberty did, was that they boarded the ship at night and threw all the tea in to the sea. Within three hours 342 chests of tea were burst open and their contents emptied in to the sea. As you can see in this picture, the participants dressed up as moderate Indians, but did they really dress up?
The war also doubled Britain’s debt which led to the passing of the Sugar Act, which taxed sugar going into the colonies. The colonists believed they needed representation in order to be taxed and therefore didn’t want to pay any new taxes which led to reduced trade and protests as the colonial economy suffered. As a result the British passed the Quartering Act, sending more troops in, as well as the Currency Act and the Stamp Act, which gave Britain control over the colonial economy and established more taxes. The Committee of Correspondence was established as a result of the Currency Act to coordinate action against Britain. As a result of the Stamp Act the sons and daughters of liberty were formed; they led resistance efforts to end the Stamp Act.
The Image shows 5 patriots tarring and feathering a British Official under the Liberty Tree while patriots in the background commit the Boston Tea Party. The image shows the British Official being force-fed the same taxed tea that the British are trying to sell the colonist. The Liberty Tree is written largely on the tree they are standing in front of further pushing their agenda of freedom from the shackles Britain is attempting to put on to the colonists. The Boston Tea Party occurring in the background is heavily significant within the image because it represents the colonies’ most impactful protest at the time and further reinforces the Colonist’s protest of British imposed imperial rule. This image depicts the patriots as disobedient
Britain’s House of Commons decided to cut their taxes by one-fourth and proposed to make up for the loss by passing the Revenue Act of 1767. Townshend drew a plan that put taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea entering the colonies. Though it only raised 37,000 pounds, compare to the 500,000 pound pay cut in the treasury department, Townshend duties was very effective in arousing political dispute that had laid inactive since the withdraw of the Stamp Act. The revolution was growing strong and would finally be established after an incident in Boston in
In the early 17th century, Nurhachi, a great political and military strategist, unified the various Nuzhen tribes and set up the Eight Banners System. Over the years, a collarless, tube-shaped gown was developed, which was worn by both men and women. The Chinese apparel Cheongsam became popular among ladies of the royal family in the Qing Dynasty. In ancient time, Cheongsam was also used as advertisement. The calendar paintings in old Shanghai, originated in the last years of the 19th century, was a kind of commercial advertising painting drawn by the Chinese employed by foreign merchants for their goods dumping, which initially adopted the format of Chinese new year paintings with a calendar on it and so was called as calendar pictures (Lv et al., 2011).