In December 16, 1773, in Boston Massachusetts, the most famous tea party began. Just before the Boston tea party had occurred, in 1733, British Parliament passed the Molasses act which was taxed for 6 pence per gallon. This would be an indirect tax amongst the American colonists. This tax wasn’t designed for revenue rather than a tax to protect large plantation owners in the British West Indies from French competition. Therefore, this would raise tax in the Northeast where it is primarily being manufactured into product and will hurt the England economy.
While already being in debt as a country, they get themselves into the French and Indian war, which doubled their debt. When the molasses act had expired in 1764, British Parliament will pass another inferior act, known as the sugar act. This act cut the tax on molasses in half. Many colonists were outraged by this and started to form boycotts, and because of this the Sons of Liberty was created as a secret organization to fight taxation by the British government. James Hancock and Samuel Adams were the founders of this organization to push for local bought goods.
In 1765, the stamp act was passed, which taxed the colonies for every time they had a legal document, magazine, newspaper, and etc had to put a stamp on it which would cost a pence. This direct tax would anger the colonists even more. After the stamp act expires, they then pass the Townshend act and indemnity act which helped with Britain’s tax with goods like tax, paper, glass, and paintings. Colonies start to get together and start to rebel. Mainly because of political reasons. No taxation without representation, they had no say in anything.
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In 1773, the crown pass the tea act. This act forced colonists to buy tea from East India tea company, which they did not like because they felt like they were being controlled. The colonies are being used to bail out an English company in order to save Britain’s tax on tea. In the fall of 1773, the British East India company will pack 7 ships with 2 thousand chests of over a half million pounds of tea, headed for North America. All going to different colonies, 4 were headed to Boston. Only 3 ships later arrive, then on November 29, Sam Adams will attend a huge meeting in Boston to discuss what needs to be done about this situation. They want to send all ships back to England, and to make sure that happens they send troops down to the dock to demand they sail back.
The big night comes on December 16, 1773 where Sam Adams holds his big meeting which would notify all colonists the effect Britain has done to the colonies. Dressed as Indians, they used many weapons but mostly brought tomahawks with them while they marched down to the docks. They dressed as Indians, to identify as Americans and not as the British. The actual Boston Tea party has lasted about 3 hours and bashed open all the chests of tea. They dumped all the tea into the Boston harbor to prove a point that the American colonists were fed up with the controlling crown.
The British then pass the Boston port act which denied any business at the port and many more acts not in favor of the colonists. This would later come to the First Continental Congress, where all the colonies come together and agree with one another to defend each other. The Boston tea party is significant because it later leads to the independence from British parliament. After the Boston tea party, the colonists only come together stronger and agree to fight for one another. The Boston tea party will always be remembered as the first step to regression against Britain, that would lead to the American Revolutionary War and freedom from England.
