The colonies overreacted to the British policies. For example, the Tea Act gave them a right to sell directly to the colonies. The colonists interpreted this as a sneaky way of gaining colonial support of taxes. They saw this as “taxation without representation” since they couldn't buy tea from anyone else without having to pay more money. The Sons of Liberty led by Samuel Adams, organized the Boston Tea Party to protest British rule.…
Danzer, 209] After the colonists figured out the King’s ruse with the tea taxes, there was another event in history that would change everything; The Boston Tea Party. December 17th, 1773, a group of rebels in Boston took to the streets wearing Native American disguises and paraded down to the docks. There, they snuck onto Britain ships and dumped millions of dollars worth of tea into the harbor. King George could not seem to have a break from the Massachusetts colony, so, he decided it would be best to punish them. Britain punished Boston by putting forward the Intolerable Acts and the Martial…
On March 5th, 1770, a crowd taunted and harassed British soldiers guarding a customs' house, with rocks and snowballs until one fired; killing five colonists. Within the same week of this "Boston Massacre", a new prime minister emerged. He persuaded parliament to repeal the duties, For the next two years, the colonist could feel some-what at peace. But this was only the calm before the storm, because a new act was before them; the Tea Act of 1773. The colonists resumed to buy the British tea, but were also smuggling Dutch tea, cutting sales for Britain.…
Radical colonists fanned public uproar following in the Boston Massacre in 1770 and plotted the famous Boston Tea Party in 1773. British officials responded by closing the port…
The colonists were not happy and did not believe it was fair . Obviously people, the Patriots, did not wish to have more taxation without representation. Therefore, the colonists were not thrilled about having the Redcoats here. England was sending more British troops in their colony to enforcing more tax laws. The Boston Massacre was an indiscriminate slaughter of American colonists on the night of March 5th, 1770.…
Colonists were protesting against the taxes and laws that they did not agree with. As shown in the picture of the Boston Massacre (document 4), British troops reacted to protests with violence. In the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms it states, “We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated (British officials), or resistance by force” (document 9). In this quote it says that the colonists either had to go along with whatever the British wanted or they had to fight back. The American colonists had no other choice than to go to…
American colonists wanted freedom and rights from the English government. What the colonists did was totally justified because they wanted freedom from the british colonies. British soldiers were pressing down hard on the colonists and began to put down more laws and taxes on the people of Boston and other countries. When the colonists had the choice to have their own government, they had their own laws and kings. When the British ended their policy with the colonists, the colonists rebelled.…
The colonists boycotted, rioted and openly rebelled. Those events caused General Thomas Gage, the British Military Governor of Massachusetts, to send troops to Boston creating more friction between the British government and the colonist. Ultimately, General Gages’ decision was the catalyst to the Boston Massacre in March 5, 1770. Following the Boston massacre, was the Boston tea party in December 16, 1773. Shortly after the tea party, Britain declared Boston in a state of rebellion.…
The Boston Massacre was a huge deal, and it made tensions between the American colonists and the British government even worse (Boston massacre historical society). Actually this would lead to a revolution, but surprisingly, the British were messing with their tea. On December 15, 1773, the ships that carried the tea arrived in Boston Harbor. The colonists need to pay the taxes as soon as the tea was unloaded off the ships. A meeting was held by the Sons of Liberty to discuss what they should do with the ships.…
Depictions and reports of abuse by the British towards the colonists throughout the 13 colonies was used to further heighten the tensions throughout the land and act as a rallying point for further protests and resistance14. The desire for self-rule began to take hold and filter throughout all of the colonies. The crumbling relationship between the colonies and their British rulers led to further decent and ultimately to significant changes. In May of 1770, all British troops were forced out of Boston and into the Castle Island, thus temporarily ending the immediate tensions between the citizens of Boston and the representatives of the King.15 The Boston Massacre is considered one of the most important events that turned the colonial settlements against the British Parliamentary Rule16.…
The Boston Massacre was one of them. It was caused by the presence of British soldiers. “…Demonstration of the destructive consequences of quartering troops among citizens in the time of Peace”. When the Quartering Act was put in place it let the British Soldiers stay at colonist’s houses. The colonists did not want them there and expressed themselves through the Declaration and Resolves of the first continental congress, along many other issues.…
Tensions rose to and explosive level in Boston between the colonists and the British soldiers on March 5, 1770. Shots were fired and in the end five people laid dead. This event became known as the Boston Massacre. As a result of colonists’ protests, Britain removed all taxes except the tax on tea. The Tea Act said that the…
Since the Proclamation of 1763, (Tindall 119) the British government had tried to regulate the American colonies and tighten its control over them. Then, the Tea Act of 1773 pushed the colonies to their breaking point. The Tea Act of 1773 was an act which granted the East India Company to “send its south Asia tea directly to America without paying any duties” (Tindall and Shy 128). When Samuel Adams and the Son of Liberty released the content of chests of tea in the ocean, they openly declared their willingness to rebel against Great Britain and its rules. The Boston tea party was not an impulsive action but a well-organized political protest against the rules of the British government.…
This thus made the king furious, King George wasted no time in sending soldiers across the Atlantic to make sure the colonies would behave as the way they should. The colonist decided to revolt. A group of colonist dressed up as American Indians and boarded the ship in the night they through hundreds of barrels of tea overboard into the harbor ruining it all. In response to the Boston tea party the kingdom pose the intolerable acts. This made many colonists even angrier.…
Many colonies kept accepting the British rules until 1772. However, in 1773, there was a direct protest by colonies against The Boston Tea tax that had been set by Great Britain. The act was about to raise the tea tax on the American colonies. Samuel Adams and some of the sons of liberty created a group to violate the British ships which caused to the Coercive Act that passed by British governments to punish the colonies and specifically Boston in 1774. Coercive Act restricted the colonies of practicing their religion, restoring order in Massachusetts, and punishing the Bostonians which led the American’s disobedience to gather and prepared for a war.…