Events that led to the Boston Tea Party: After the English won the French and Indian war in 1763‚ the King passed the Sugar Act (a set a tax on sugar and molasses)‚ the Stamp Act (a set tax on all legal papers)‚ and the Townshend Acts (taxes on glass‚ paint‚ oil‚ lead‚ paper‚ and tea.) The reason for passing these acts was to make up for all the money lost during the war and to pay for future costs. The colonists saw this as useless‚ and refused to pay the taxes set on certain items. The British
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interview with Ezra Klein‚ Theda Skocpol discussed the ways that grassroots Tea Party Activists and elite groups‚ like Americans for Prosperity that early on in the Tea Party movement would have said that they spoke for the Tea Party‚ have developed over the last several years. Despite many American distancing themselves from the Tea Party label‚ Skocpol argues that the grassroots people who were heavily involved in the Tea Party‚ are still making an impact on the 2016 election‚ supporting people like
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falls when in 1773 the tea monopoly commerce is controlled by the English company of the
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Tea Party Platform 1. Eliminate Extensive Taxes ▪ Believe that heavy taxes are a burden for those who apply their personal liberty to work hard ▪ Need for government to protect the freedom of citizens with interference of the government that has exceeded its necessary size or scope. 2. Eliminate National Debt ▪ there is a need to have fiscal conservative policies at all levels of government ▪ narrow down the national debt for the good of the average
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tireless minority... ~ Samuel Adams. Why is the Boston Tea Party important? The Boston Tea Party was important because it showed the American colonies had grown tired of no taxation without representation by the British. When the East India company was allowed to sell tea directly to America‚ the British insisted the tax be paid on it. This resulted in the dumping of tea cargoes into Boston Harbor. In this essay about The Boston Tea Party questions will be answered‚ the truth will be told and
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How the Tea Party Playbook Can Become the Democrats’ Anti-Trump Guide Since President Trump’s inauguration‚ Democrats have been calling for party unity to form an effective opposition against him. Democrats seem to have found an effective way to unite the party and start a resistance against Trump and his administration. By taking a page from the Tea Party playbook‚ the Democrats are building an uprising - one that the Trump administration will soon have to acknowledge. The plan is simple: start
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On December 16‚1773 the Boston tea party took place. The Boston tea party is commonly described as the day the colonist threw over 200 chests of tea into the Boston harbor. But what instigated this kind of rebellion ? The answer to that lies in what happened prior to the day of the event. After the French and Indian war had ceased England realized that they needed a way to regain the money they had lost while the war was going on. King George III and the British parliament decided to issue a tax
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The Boston Tea Party happened as a result of “Taxation without representation”‚ but the cause is more complex than that. The American colonist believed they were treated unfairly by the British. Colonist believed parliament did not have the right to tax them because the American colonist were not being represented in the parliament. The Boston Tea Party was organized and carried out by a group of Patriots led by Samuel Adams called “The Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty was made of males from
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1 The following paper will tell a story of a shoemaker in Boston during the 1770’s recalling events of British arrogance and his participation in‚ of the now historic "Boston tea Party". George Hewes‚ the Boston shoemaker‚ was over ninety years old when he tells his story to a journalist in 1834. In my paper I hope to enlighten you on the similarities of the action and attitude of John Malcolm to the importation and sale of tea in the American colonies and why Hewes and his comrades believe their
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for political order. In 1892‚ the Populist Party supported the Omaha Platform which stated the rights and laws the populists wanted from the government. While in 2010‚ the Hartford Tea Party declared independence from the United States Government’s politics and regulations. These two ideologies have common and uncommon factors that contribute to political order. First off‚ the most important similarities of the Populist Party and the Hartford Tea Party is that they both claim government corruption
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