The Boston Tea Party
jueves, 10 de febrero de 2011
King George and his advisor Lord Townshend needed to raise money to put into the dangerously low British coffers. After much discussion the king and Townshend with what they thought a brilliant idea. In the minds of the British, it was obvious that the colonists owed England for protection of soldiers, selling them supplies, and buying them the products produced in America. The colonies were the perfect place to go for needed cash. Taxing the some goods the colonist needed would be the perfect way to raise the money. The British decide to tax glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea that were shipped to the colonies.
The colonists were dissatisfied with the new taxes levied on them. That was taxation without representation in their minds. The colonial leaders called for a boycott to all the British goods. With this way they could send the crown a message telling them to drop the taxes. Their plan worked well at a point that all the taxes were repealed except the one in tea. They wanted all the taxes to be repealed, so they planning to make a very public way to convinced England.
In 1773, The Davison Newman Company of London sent a ship loaded with tea to Boston Harbor. A group of colonists disguised themselves as Indians and entered the ship. They broke the trunks holding the tea using tomahawks. After breaking 342 trunks, they threw the tea into Boston Harbor. The king and Parliament were angry. This act of disobedience made them do what they called the Coercive Acts. The stage had been set the colonists were not giving up their freedom and the British were not accepting insolence.
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