Tea Act and Party with Intolerable/Coercive Acts (1773) – British had repealed all taxes EXCEPT for the Tea Act, many parties resisted purchasing the British tea; British then put the Intolerable/Coercive Acts into place to scare the colonist and tell them “don’t mess with us,” they shut off the Boston ports, brought in many British troops, and announced that all court cases would be done outside of Boston…
The Tea Act was repelled by the colonial boycott was effective the British had been hurt but kept tea act. On 1773 parliament passed the new Tea Act. Because tea was so popular they made a way to farm money off of it. Only the people who pay taxes would get the tea without the tax on the tea. If you didn't pay your taxes you would be paying the tax on tea. This enraged the colonial shippers and merchants.…
The Sugar Act taxed all common goods such as sugar, lumber, animal skins, and whale bone. The colonists responded in a mild protest, but it was not a huge issue for most. The next act past was the Stamp Act. The stamp act highly taxed stamps and made it so every paper had to have a stamp. The colonist were very angry about this act so they rioted until the act was repealed. The next revolutionary act was the Townshend Acts. This taxed common goods such as paper, tea, paint, and glass. The colonists responded to this act by boycotting British goods. Eventually British government repealed all the taxes except for the one on tea. This was not good enough for the colonist, they wanted all the taxes destroyed. They acted on this by going out in the middle of the night and throwing in 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. As a punishment British government passed the Intolerable acts. There was four laws included in this act, the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. In the Boston Port Act the Boston Port was closed until the people of Boston had payed for it all. This was very significant because that port was used to import food, the citizens would starve without it. The Massachusetts Government Act stated that all town meetings or…
One bright, sunny morning, Petunia the pathogen was visiting the amusement park/water park. But, before she could leave her house, she had to get dolled up. She put on her earrings, made herself purple and then she started off. Petunia started her day off by going onto the doorknob to get a ride through Louis’ body and into the amusement park. Along the way, Petunia met Peter the pathogen. He was very nice to her and they were going to spend the day together. Then, when she got into the park, the first thing she saw was a clown blowing up a big red balloon. It was like the greatest thing he had ever seen.…
1. The protests of the Boston Tea Party shocked Parliament so much that they led to a series of acts…
The colonists rebelling only made Britain more angry and less lenient on the colonies, showing no mercy and even stating that they had the authority to legislate whatever they wanted in all cases what so ever in the Declaratory Act of 1776. However, the colonists still fought and rebelled which, again only infuriated and exacerbated their conflict with Britain. The Boston Tea Party was the colonist’s last act of rebellion where they threw thousands of worth of tea into the Boston Harbor. That proved to be the last straw for Britain and after that Britain created the Coercive Acts, otherwise known as the Intolerable Acts by the…
The Glorious Revolution was a political coup that took place in Great Britain during the mid-17th century;the main cause of this conflict was growing Protestant concern over King James II’s strict adherence to his Catholic faith. This conflict is also known as the Revolution of 1688, and it resulted in the solidification of Parliament's power over the monarch and the Catholic King James II being replaced by his daughter, the Protestant Queen Mary, and her husband King William III. Although this was a political conflict that resulted in the deposition of a ruling monarch, it was a relatively peaceful transition in military terms, resulting in the little bloodshed. The Glorious Revolution affected the colonies by resulting in the dissolution…
Problems started to escalate between the colonists and Britain in 1763, the seemingly peaceful time escalated into a full fledged battle. The problems were based on trade, taxes, and lack of representation in the British Parliament. The final example of how Britain pushed the colonists too far was with the Tea Act, which gave one tea company a monopoly over all others. This caused the colonists to retaliate by dumping all of the tea into Boston Harbor, creating the Boston Tea Party. Britain continued to try and keep America under their control, but on July 4, 1776, America wrote the…
The British imperialism had a huge impact on the world. One main thing it effected was that it had broke the old age pattern of the agrarian economy. It had also forced the production of crops in many places. It had effected the geography, economics, and culture in primary and secondary sources. It had ended community handicrafts through the unbeatable competition of the I.N.P (Industrial Nations Product).…
The main piece of aggravation to the colonists was the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was protested upon the principle “No taxation without representation”. This particular act affected virtually all the colonists and limiting economic success, and thus the colonists protested. An additional factor in the company was the Townshend Act. The British Parliament was illegally taxing. As a result, the colonists boycotted British goods (Document C). The Tea Act made the colonies economically inferior to that of England’s. The Tea Act was an act where the colonies merchants were being evaded and the British took over the trading. This hurt the economic success of the colonists, multitudes strengthened in resentment and soon after the Boston Tea Party followed (Document F). The British were furious at the colonial resistance to British law. In retaliation the Intolerable Act was passed. The Intolerable Act deactivated the Boston Port at Massachusetts Bay. Deactivating the port also deactivated the center of economic success for the colonies (Document H). England was also limiting the colonists to raw material production, which also hindered their economic success.…
The coercive acts happened in March 1774 and it happened in Boston, Massachusetts. It happened because Parliament wanted to pass a new set of laws to punish the colonists in Massachusetts. The colonists called the new sets of law the Coercive Acts because people were forced to obey the laws. The Coercive was a harsh law that punished the colonists harshly and to punish them further, the British stopped the legislature to make any more laws. The colony was under control of the British general and he ordered the colonists to feed the soldiers and house them. The coercive acts was an act that not all British leaders agreed to, Edmund Burks didn’t like the way the colonists were being treated, but Parliament just kept going on with their ways and…
These acts included: The Boston Port Act which closed their ports until the citizens repaid all their debts towards the wasted tea, The Massachusetts Government Act which put the whole colony under British control, The Administration of Justice Act allowed Britain to try against Massachusetts officials if he felt the need to, The Quartering Act which is similar to what the Third Amendment prevents, and the Quebec Act which expanded the British territory up into Canada. All of these key events were necessary in order to trigger outrage in the colonies and make the colonists rise up against their…
In 1773 parliament passed the tea act in which the British pay less for tax to ship places. This made the prices of tea lower from Britain. Since Boston's tea would be more expensive nobody would buy it from them. The tea act was just another problem adding up between the colonists and britain. This made the colonists want to be independent from Britain. The colonists decided to rebel and dumb three hundred and forty two chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. The act was given the name the Boston Tea Party. Most of the British thought of the Boston Tea Party as an act of terrorism. Really the Boston Tea Party was just another step to independence for the colonists.…
The beginning of the American Revolution can be traced back to the French and Indian war and the immense costs incurred on the British. As a direct result, harsh taxes were enacted on the colonies such as the infamous Townshend Acts of 1767. The Acts, which were repealed in 1770, proved to be a huge British error. They created American animosity and stemmed the anti-British sentiment that Common Sense would utilize. The tax on tea remained, however, culminating in 1773 and the Boston Tea Party. Through an event of this nature, one can see the unity of the colonists and their willingness to act; these two characteristics would prove vital to the revolution. It should not be assumed that this passion lay within everyone. Despite their discontent, much of…
There were four main parts to them: the port of Boston was to be closed until all the spilled tea was paid for, any British officer or soldier arrested in the colonies was to be allowed to return to England for his trial, all colonists must allow British soldiers into their homes if necessary, and no colonists could publicly meet in Massachusetts without the governor’s direct permission except to elect officers. These acts enraged the colonists, as they infringed on their basic rights as a British colony. Especially since in both the English Petition of Rights and the English Bill of Rights quartering of troops is illegal. They also saw the restriction on public gathering as a direct offense on their basic human rights. The colonists absolutely hated England for setting out these Acts and word of a revolution began to circulate through the…