The Boston Tea Party has always been interesting to me. I always used to think of it as something that was comical when told this story in elementary history, with colonists dressing up as Native Americans and throwing tea into Boston Harbor. It never seemed like a serious thing to me until I aged a little and realized the true meaning behind these acts, I feel as though I would’ve been a part of it. The other reason why I picked this site is due to the fact that I’ve always been the type of person who needs to have reliable websites because I know that there is a lot of misinformation out there, so choosing websites that are well-known or a university website are always a must. I also know the history channel is a reliable place to learn about the past, so this website was perfect for my final Internet review. The British had just gotten out of the Seven Year’s War and was deep in debt. They saw America as a source of revenue and enacted the Stamp Act, which was “the first direct, internal tax that it had ever levied on the colonists.” The Stamp Act was later repealed, but it was just the start of the taxation on colonists. Because of the colonist’s distrust of the British Parliament, they either stopped drinking tea or drank smuggled Dutch tea. This in turn created an economic hardship for the East India Company. Parliament then passed the Tea Act, which allowed the company to ship directly to the colonies without first going through England. The Boston Tea Party was a time of outrage.
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The colonists were anything but happy about the tea tax that was brought about by the Tea Act of 1773. They decided to protest the thirteen years of increasing British oppression by throwing 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor, which is the equivalent of one million dollars in tea today (so you can only imagine how much it would have cost back then). After the tossing of the tea, the British passed the Coercive Acts of 1774, as to restore order in Boston. This continuous battle with the British ended a few years later with the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. The visual of this website is very enjoyable. It’s easy to look at and there aren’t a whole lot of ads to confuse you. When the page first opens up, you see the title: Boston Tea Party nice and big at the top, so you know you’re at the …show more content…
Years of oppression had the colonists fed up. They were tired of being controlled by the British and they knew something had to be done before everything got even more out of hand. With Britain’s taxation on everything from sugar to a deck of cards, and protests broke out every time something new was taxed. When the Tea Act of 1773, which required the colonists to purchase only British tea. Even though it was actually cheaper than other teas, but it was taxed and colonists detested that. Compared to popular opinion, the Tea Party wasn’t some crazy, wild protest; it was simply the action of throwing the tea into the harbor. They didn’t swarm and set the ship on fire, they didn’t even damage the ship. They only wanted the tea, nothing else. It was simply to make a point that the tax was
The colonists were anything but happy about the tea tax that was brought about by the Tea Act of 1773. They decided to protest the thirteen years of increasing British oppression by throwing 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor, which is the equivalent of one million dollars in tea today (so you can only imagine how much it would have cost back then). After the tossing of the tea, the British passed the Coercive Acts of 1774, as to restore order in Boston. This continuous battle with the British ended a few years later with the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. The visual of this website is very enjoyable. It’s easy to look at and there aren’t a whole lot of ads to confuse you. When the page first opens up, you see the title: Boston Tea Party nice and big at the top, so you know you’re at the …show more content…
Years of oppression had the colonists fed up. They were tired of being controlled by the British and they knew something had to be done before everything got even more out of hand. With Britain’s taxation on everything from sugar to a deck of cards, and protests broke out every time something new was taxed. When the Tea Act of 1773, which required the colonists to purchase only British tea. Even though it was actually cheaper than other teas, but it was taxed and colonists detested that. Compared to popular opinion, the Tea Party wasn’t some crazy, wild protest; it was simply the action of throwing the tea into the harbor. They didn’t swarm and set the ship on fire, they didn’t even damage the ship. They only wanted the tea, nothing else. It was simply to make a point that the tax was