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Melissa Langella 10/2/09 Fire Boston Tea Party Essay The event that I picked was the Boston Tea Party. I feel that the colonists did a good thing by dumping the 342 crates of tea into the harbor as an act of protesting. It wasn't fair that the colonists had to pay taxes on their paper goods and now their tea. I think that the British went too far by one, taxing their tea and two, passing the Intolerable Acts and closing the harbor after the tea was dumped. If the colonists were taxing them on tea they would've done the same thing to them. One reason why i feel this way about the Boston Tea Party is that the colonists were vey upset that now there tea was getting taxed as well. So the memebers of the Sons of Liberty dressed up like Mohawk Indians, boarded the three ships holding the crates and dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor. They did this to protest and show how they felt about the taxes on the tea. I think that British went too far with passing the Intolerable Acts which then closed the Boston Harbor. This didn't make the colonists happy, after all they did to protest it just back fired them. The second reason why i feel this way about my topic is that it wasn't fair to the colonists that now there tea was getting taxed on top of the Stamp Act, which taxed all paper goods. The British also again went to far that is another reason why i feel this way about the Boston Tea Party. In 1765 the Stamp Act was passed and the colonists weren't very happy about this, but they weren't angry enough to start protesting. Then in 1773 the Tea Act was passed and this is when the colonists got angry and prostested. The British didn't like that they dumped their tea into the harbor. So I think as a prostest or a way of showing power,they passed the Intolerable Acts just to make sure that everyone knew that they were in charge. My counterclaim is that some people might disagree with the way I feel because they might think that closing the harbor would be good. They might think that because there wouldn't be anymore taxes on tea but now they can't get anything over from England and now is when the Intolerable Acts were passed. These were the wost acts of them all because this is were the breaking point happened. So closing the port was not good at all because it made everything worse. So once the colonists protested I think the Bristish went to fall with Intolerable Acts, but they also went to far with the Tea Act of 1773. I think that once the tea was dumped the British should've gotten the message that they didn't like the taxes and instead of passing more acts to try to show that they were in power they should've stopped the taxes before anything got worse. I believe this was an inpact of the beginning of the Revolutionary War.