Iced tea

During the development of American society during the 1700s, the colonists worked closely with their British Government. Their partnership claimed the colonies as an extension of British soil and in turn gave Parliament and the British Monarchy authority over this land. For many years this partnership was a profitable one but as the evolution of American society was happening, another evolution happening in Europe. A movement called the Enlightenment was radically making its way through European…

The American Revolution was unavoidable, In 1765 the American Revolution began and never stopped until 1783, the war was fought by the original 13 Colonies and Great Britain. George Washington led the colonies to the independence of Great Britain. Before the American Revolution so many other wars and issues that led up to the Revolution. Land ownership, Reaction to taxes, Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine’s messages, are some of the causes that made the Revolution inevitable. Long before the…

was known as the Boston Massacre. When word began to spread, the idea of starting a war for independence strengthened. Another example of how the colonists revolted was through the Boston Tea Party. In December of 1773 a group of Bostonians dressed up as Indians to dump millions of dollars’ worth of British tea into the…

Civil disobedience is the practice of challenging the government through dissent. The disobedients strive to resolve the the moral, ethical or political issue that is cause for disobedience through acts break the status quo and sometimes the law. Civil disobedience is meant to effect change in the government, it is meant to do what the founding fathers did by creating a new country out of the ashes of their greatest act of civil disobedience, the Revolutionary War. However, civil disobedience in…

On May 10th, 1773, the Boston Tea Act was signed by the British. This allowed the British to have a complete monopoly on tea and raise its price and taxes, leading to the Boston Tea Party. After the Tea Act was passed, the East India Company was allowed to have a complete monopoly on virtually all tea sales, enabling them to raise the prices. The Colonists became more and more angered by the high tea prices, and began to protest the British and the East India Tea Company. On December 16th, 1773…

The reason behind this was essentially to have the tea that was destroyed pair for in full. Food and firewood were the only goods that were permitted to travel into the port of Boston. The second act put an end to the Massachusetts constitution. Town officials and council would be elected by the royal governor…

During the late 1800s, Britain began to augment its presence in its American colonies, but with pressing domestic issues, only minimal attention was initially paid to the colonies. Due to this, inhabitants of the colonies proceeded with their everyday lives, and developed separately from the intentions of the mother country, beginning anew their own way. They are British colonies, but because of their geographical location and foundation, they were free of the harsh rule. However, seeing the…

Who likes unjust taxation and financial restraint? Do you? I know myself, as a Daughter of Liberty, am appalled by these events. We are working to fight against the imposters of the taxation and restraint, you guessed it, Great Britain itself! If we do not rise to the fight, what makes you think these outrageous laws and financial curtailments won’t continue as long as we live? Join the Sons and Daughters of Liberty in our fight for American independence, or live a lifetime of taxes piling up at…

wearing an armband with a group of other citizens who share the same belief as you, can cause a huge impact. Many people may know about the Boston Tea Party of 1773. Many Americans were taxed unfairly in order to get rid of the government’s debt due to war costs from the French and Indian War. The citizens stroke against this catastrophe by dumping the tea off into the Boston Harbor.(eyewitnesstohistory.com) From this came the popular saying, “No Taxation without Representation.” The people did…

Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson’s collaboration, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, and Todd Gitlin’s book, Occupy Nation, examine the formation and workings of two politically dichotomous social movements, the Tea Party Movement and the Occupy Wall Street Movement respectively. Both books profile each social movement profoundly and conduct rigorous research before making their respective conclusions about the causes and effects of each social movement. I found both…