The Boston Tea Party happened in 1773. It all started when the British decided to start taxing the colonists in many ways, including a tea tax, as a way to get back their war costs. The colonists refused to pay some of these taxes and therefore England had to retract the taxes; all the taxes were taken back except for the tea tax. Parliament decided to get their tea from somewhere else rather than from where their tea was being taxed. This plan, however, backfired when the ships at the harbor were to have their tea goods sent to a warehouse where it was stored for three years.
In late November 1773, three cargo ships carrying tea arrived in Boston Harbor. A couple of weeks before, a group of patriots and merchants called the North End Caucus had voted to deny any landing of tea shipped by the East India Company. A confrontation was looming. Boston patriots had no desire to hurt the ship owners. Their beef was with the Crown and the East India Company.
Before the Tea Party took place the held a meeting right before it actually started at the Old South Meeting House and over 5,000 people attendant the meeting. For the people that gave up drinking tea, while at the destruction of the tea over 116 people held empty containers, because they poured them tea in the sea. The tea act is primary blame the Boston Tea Party, but for the number of other acts it was created by the British government, including the Stamp Act, the Quartering Act, the Sugar Act, and the Townshend
By law, the East India Company did not export the tea to the colonies. The East India Company was required to sell their tea wholesale at auctions in England. The British companies bought the tea and exported them to merchants within the colonies in Charleston, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. (The Boston Tea Party, 1773," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2002) RUNNING
Reason being, is because the British army was not need. They have already defeated the French and pushed the Indians far west, so the colonists would be paying for protection against nothing. Agents for tea cancelled the orders of tea because of the tax, but still there was ships that came into harbor and they demanded that the colonists pay for all this tea, with the tax. On December 16th, 1773, a group of people dressed like Indians and boarded the ships with tea and threw all the tea over board into the water. This act is now famously known as the Boston Tea Party.
It was on December 16, 1773, when American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians threw 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company from ships into Boston Harbor. Most people have heard about the Boston Tea Party but not everyone understands the importance of it, and why the Tea Party is still remembered today. The events leading to the Boston Tea Party began already ten years before (1763), when the English won the French-and-Indian War. The king of Britain passed taxes on the colonies to make up for the loss of money because of the war. The British-American colonists named the acts after Charles Townshend, who sponsored them.
The origin of the Tea Party political party is debatable; however, no one will argue that the Tea Party burst onto the scene before the 2008 election and took the nation’s media and attention by storm. The name of the organization is highly transparent, taken from the Boston Tea Party movement who objected taxation without representation by the British Government. In the years after World War I, the farmers of America embraced the movement of the original Boston Tea Party. In 1933, farmers with the same ideology organized against the Hoover administration to rally against the government in order to gain assistance in stopping the drop of crop prices and foreclosures on farms. “The farm strike didn’t do much to raise farm prices…instead it was
The Boston Tea Party The liberation of America was not based on one specific event, but the accumulation of many significant events that lead to the American Revolution. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest against the British government and East Indian Company that took place in Boston, Massachusetts on December 16, 1773. American patriots disguised themselves as a Native American tribe called the “Mohawk,” and boarded a ship belonging to the British East Indian Company, dumping 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. Many say it was an act of vandalism and disrespect, but in reality it was one of the many stepping-stones that led to the American Revolution. The event that started as a revolt against the tax policy on tea became an iconic event in American history and led to major tension between the Americans and Europeans.
The King ordered Pepys to go the the Lord Mayor and tell him to have all the houses pulled down to which the Lord Mayor replied ‘I am spent. People will not obey me’ After seeing as much as he could he went to Whitehall to an appointment there, later he walked to St. James Park where he met his wife. They went as near to the fire as was possible but smoke and burning embers drove them back. As it grew dark Pepys and his friends went to an alehouse on the Bankside. Pepys said that the flames were like no other fires he had ever seen.
On April 6, 1930, after having marched 241 miles on foot from his village to the sea, Mohandas K. Gandhi arrived at the coastal village of Dandi, India, and gathered salt. It was a simple act, but one which was illegal under British colonial rule of India. Gandhi was openly defying the British Salt Law. Within a month, people all over India were making salt illegally, and more than 100,000 were sent to jail; many fell victim to police violence, but none retaliated or even defended themselves (Herman 99-101). The Salt March of 1930 was a vital step toward India’s independence from Britain.