My Information on the Boston Tea Party
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The Boston Tea Party
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As the years pass, the French and Indian war was still in progress. A war to remember. 7 years passed and it was finally over. A surprising victory by the British and there Indian allies. Cha-Ching! A sound the British heard when they found out the cost of the war. They were highly and debt and needed money badly. So King George started taxing the colonists. They got very angry.
Meetings were held and, ships sailed into the harbor holding crates of tea in them. There were 3 ship. The Dartmouth, Beaver and, Eleanor. On November 18, 1773, the first ship sailed into the harbor. The Dartmouth. Later that day, handbills were passed out to the mad Bostonians. The handbill said, "Friends! Brethren! Countrymen! That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in this harbor. Every friend of this country... is now called upon to meet, to make a united and successful resistance."
The meeting was held later that day and, the townspeople said that the Dartmouth should be sent back to England exactly the way it was with the tea still in it. Governor Hutchinson instead insisted that the tea that is carried by the Dartmouth be unloaded and that the ships owner pay all of the tax levied by the British crown. But on the other hand he was nervous that Bostonians would riot if crewmen were trying to unload the ship so it just stayed like always except for the chests of tea. The chests of tea were taken off.
Finally, the other 2 ships that carried chests of tea sailed in. The Beaver and Eleanor. Then, Governor Hutchinson was sick and tired of ships coming in to the harbor. He had a plan. He was going to order the Dartmouth to be unloaded on December 17, 1773 at the Old South Meeting House. Everyone at the meeting were like blazes of fire ready to burst, angry because of the ships of tea and the taxation. On topic and tense speeches were made about this problem.
Sam Adams was involved in the meeting and stood up and said one sentence that was so powerful but so simple."This meeting can do nothing more to save our country." He said It was a triggering statement that he made. People even got more tense than ever. People were yelling out things like "The Boston Harbor will be a tea pot tonight". Then realizing that the tea party was about to start.
People started rushing out of the Old South Meeting house and changed into Indian costumes. They went out to the waterfront where many Bostonians were disguised as Indians. They did this so they wont be caught by any of the British. They all had a plan to intend to dump the tea over board landing in the water. They didn’t want violence to interrupt their protest. Mohawks were the people who actually dumped the tea overboard. They were ready. Then the tea party finally happened.
There was 3 groups that the Mohawks were split up into. They had several people and chosen leaders. Also, each group had a different tea ship. So they started to get to business. A point was being proved as axes were striking, cranes are creaking and, crates of tea are being dumped. Bostonians watch the tea dumping happen.342 chests of tea were open and thrown overboard. Their work was done.
Paul Revere had a popular part in the American Revolution. He didn't participate in the party but still told the colonies all about the tea party. Radicals were proud of the brave Bostonians. Taverns around throughout the colonies rang with this new song."Rally, Mohawks bring out your axes, and tell King George we'll pay no taxes on his foreign tea!".
In the history of the American Revolution there has been much anger brought up by both the British and the colonies.But the Boston Tea Party was a powerful point of anger and a powerful act of protest. By news being shared the British found out. The British closed the harbor caused by anger. But this protest more wars to come, and come.