belong to the members of the Tea Party movement who have hijacked and derailed the political direction of the GOP platform. Tea Party politicians stand on the principle of ideological conservatism‚ and hold strong attitudes towards social and financial issues that concern the American public. The Tea Party has enjoyed tremendous popularity for the last few years. A popularity that has helped the members establish an audience and a large supporting in the Republican Party. But the success of this social
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colony had boarded three British tea ship as Mohawk Indians. They were protesting the taxes that the British had put in place on tea and had dumped 342 chests of tea in the harbor. The Boston Tea Party lead to the Revolutionary War by upsetting the Colonists due to the unfair taxation‚ overbearing British rule and the overgrowing differences between American and British beliefs. After the French and Indian war King George III and British Parliament had made a tax on tea to pay off the debts that resulted
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Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party is typically viewed as one of the most popular‚ well-known events of the Revolutionary War. The Boston Tea Party occurred on the night of December 17‚ 1773. The colonists were fed up with Britain taxing them and trying to regain control. The Boston Tea Party was a direct response to the Tea Act‚ an act created to save the East India Tea company‚ left the colonists paying very high taxes on tea. Many people drank tea and enjoyed it very much so it left many
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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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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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In the article “The Shoemaker and the Revolution‚” Alfred F. Young analyzes and demonstrates with secondary sources of the events leading to the Revolution. The author’s purpose of the article is to narrate the experience of the ordinary Boston shoemaker‚ George Robert Twelves Hewes‚ during the time before the Revolution. He writes the article to show how the causes of the Revolution impacted the lives of ordinary citizens such as Hewes and the transformation he goes through. The article mainly
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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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of the tea party. The movement is suffering from extreme miscalculation and a foolish misreading of its opponents’ intentions. This‚ in turn‚ has created a moment of enlightenment‚ an opening to see things that were once missed. Many Republicans‚ of course‚ saw the disaster coming in advance of the shutdown. But they were terrified to take on a movement that is fortified by money‚ energy and the backing of a bloviating brigade of talk-show hosts. The assumption was that the tea party had become
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Source A: This cartoon shows a British colonialist sitting on a box of tea after the Boston Tea Party. The colonist‚ clearly in a position of weakness‚ says “make no mistake… I’m still in command of this vessel.” Despite the colonist’s words‚ the patriots had clearly “won this battle”‚ and had taken a huge step forward towards independence. The cartoon shows that this event‚ organised by the Boston Patriots‚ weakened the colonists‚ and helped the Americans in their fight for independence. Context
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