The Struggle For Independence: The Boston Tea Party

In this unit, I had learned about various acts, enlightenment thinkers, the Boston Tea Party, etc. For this project, we had to create a pamphlet about independence. I talked about the Intolerable Acts, a series of acts created as an outcome of the Boston Tea Party which included The Quebec Act, The Massachusetts Government Act and The Quartering Act of 1774. These acts had negatively impacted the colonists as it took away the land which many of them had desired, political rights, individual rights and stature of nature, and it took away the colonists’ natural rights. These acts are some of the main reasons as to why the need for independence was high, as none of them resulted in a positive outcome (9g. The Intolerable Acts").
The Boston Tea Party is another example of how Britain had taken advantage of the colonies. The event represented a reason why the colonists required independence. In the Boston Tea Party, citizens had dumped 340 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor (“9f. The Tea Act and Tea Parties”). Consequently, Britain had forced the colonists to pay off the debts resulted by this rebellious event, in turn, creating the Intolerable Acts. The sole reason for the tea being dumped is because colonists had felt that they were being cheated of resources; they received resources at a lower quality for a higher price.
During the Boston Massacre, many of the colonists were upset with the British troops staying in the colonies monitoring the colonists("The Boston Massacre."). This is very similar to the NSA and how they have been monitoring communications between the US and other foreign entities. In both situations, citizens had lost the opportunity of freedom of some sort, as the troops in the American Revolution were stationed and eventually restricted and enforced laws on the people and the NSA could be considered as breaking the fourth amendment in monitoring these communications