The Two Faces of the Tea Party The Tea Party movement of the late 18th century has been reinvented by a different group of political figures in today´s society. Both movements have similar intentions but are protesting and campaigning for very different reasons. This paper will look at today´s Tea Party and compare the protesters and their reasons for protesting with those of the Boston Tea Party all those years ago. The first movement called ´´The Boston Tea Party´´ began in 1773. It represented
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December 3rd‚ 2011 The Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party made a change in history‚ a rebellion that has a cause and effect. It was a cold December night in Boston. There were three famous ships‚ the Dartmouth‚ the Eleanor‚ and the Beaver were sitting in Boston harbor‚ their holds full of tea that wasn’t being unloaded because of the angry residents of Boston were threatened not to buy or use the tea. The government of Great Britain had passes the Tea Act‚ a law that almost guaranteed that
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Book Analysis Paper Skocpol‚ Theda and Vanessa Williamson. 2012. The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Goneya‚ Don. 2013. “Amid Declining Popularity‚ The Tea Party Prepares to Fight”. Retrieved December 24‚ 2013. (http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/12/24/256859872/amid-declining-popularity-the-tea-party-prepares-to-fight) In The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism‚ Vanessa Williamson and Theda Skocpol take an in-depth
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peace but can be completely different at certain periods of time. As a prevention from too much government intervention‚ the people of America have a representative dating since 1773‚called the Tea Party Movement. This movement wants the government to stick to the real meaning
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loss for the Republican Party‚ the Tea Party emerged seen as the savior the GOP needed‚ and in their eyes‚ the saviors of the collapsing country. The grassroots movement mainly composed of conservative‚ white middle-class citizens gained traction and exposure through Republican business elites‚ national advocates and funders‚ and media exposure‚ particularly conservative news sources with Fox News leading the way. With these outside factors and diffusion methods‚ Tea Party ideals quickly spread and
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The Tea Party Movement and The Occupy Movement The Tea Party movement originated in Great Britain in 1773 it later became known as the Boston Tea Party and protesters fought against taxes by the British without any governmental representation for the American colonists (Miller‚ 2012‚ p. 18). The Occupy movement originated in 2011 in a park in New York City‚ the financial district. This movement spread rapidly across to other cities. The Occupy movement is against corporate greed (Wood‚ J.). Both
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Boston Tea Party How was the Boston Tea Party started? the people that helped in the boston tea party were samuel adams‚ the sons of liberty‚ and a small group of men towards boston harbor. The act of american colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. for more refuge seeking to boost the troubled East India Company‚ British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston‚ New York‚ and Philadelphia all very much rejected tea shipments
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The Boston Tea Party of 1773 “drove up political hostility on both sides of the Atlantic” (Fredriksen 309). It was a political protest to the Tea Act which had been passed by the British Parliament in the same year to aid the East India Company which was on the verge of bankruptcy. On December 16 the Sons of Liberty reacted to British tax policies in Boston. The demonstrators‚ some of whom disguised as Mohawk Indians‚ boarded three tea ships‚ Dartmouth‚ Eleanor‚ and Beaver‚ sent by the East India
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generations are metaphorically speaking the same tune. The Tea Party movement began in the summer of 2009.The Occupy Wall Street movement was motioned by the Canadian activist group‚ Adbusters‚ and officially began on September 17‚ 2011. Protesting of these groups are the result of countless intrusions of the United States government and the unequal justice of the corporations that run the capitalist market. The Tea Party movement mainly consists of middle-aged members that largely
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Boston Tea party because the Colonist had enough of the King putting taxes on things without telling them. That night they threw a whole cargo of tea overboard into the sea that came from Britain. The Boston Tea Party had a greater impact leading the colonies towards fighting for Independence from Britain. The King was making taxes without telling the colonists which made them angry because the colonists wanted to talk to the king about the taxes and maybe they didn’t want the tax. The Tea Act was
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