American+Revolution+NS10

media type="custom" key="4483118" __**//BOSTON TEA PARTY //**

BACKROUND INFO:__

The **Boston Tea Party** was a [|direct action] by colonists in [|Boston], a town in the British [|colony of Massachusetts], against the [|British government]. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed [|tea] to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into [|Boston Harbor]. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and has often been referenced in other political protests.

__PART IN AMERICAN REVOLUTION:__

__The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the__ [|American Revolution]__. Parliament responded in 1774 with the__ [|Coercive Acts]__, which, among other provisions,__ [|closed Boston's commerce] __until the__ [|British East India Company] __had been repaid for the destroyed tea. Colonists in turn responded to the Coercive Acts with additional acts of protest, and by convening the__ [|First Continental Congress]__, which__ [|petitioned the British monarch] __for repeal of the acts and coordinated colonial resistance to them. The crisis escalated, and the__ [|American Revolutionary War] __began near Boston in 1775.__ _

__STORY OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY:__

__The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout__ [|British America] __against the__ [|Tea Act]__, which had been passed by the__ [|British Parliament] __in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act for a variety of reasons, especially because they believed that it violated their__ [|right] __to be__ [|taxed only by their own elected representatives]__. Protesters had successfully prevented the unloading of taxed tea in three other colonies, but in Boston, embattled Royal Governor__ [|Thomas Hutchinson] __refused to allow the tea to be returned to Britain. He apparently did not expect that the protestors would choose to destroy the tea rather than concede the__ [|authority] __of a legislature in which they were not directly represented.__ _

__MY OPINION ABOUT THE BOSTON TEA PARTY:__

Yes this event was worth it, because we are free now and don't have funny accents like back then.

I would have done the same becuase I would want freedom and no weird British accents.

__MY OPINION ABOUT THE MOVIE:__

No, I do not think the movie was that accurate because the people would have been a little bit more serious than they were during the movie.