The Boston Tea Party
Ema Kojic, 8S
Provoking the Bostonians
An American-owned ship, the Dartmouth, arrived in the Boston Harbor, in 1773. The ship was filled with chests of tea, which belonged to the British East India Company. The ship owners had expected for the Bostonians to unload all the tea and sell it for them. However, the Bostonians had different plans...
Angry Colonists
Crowds of thousands gathered at the Boston Harbor to demand the tea remained on board, the Bostonians protested against the tax on tea and many other goods, and they resisted by boycotting all goods that were taxed because these taxes were being imposed from the British Parliament with no input from the colonies. "Taxation without representation" upset them more and more. Something big was going to happen, and it would happen soon. The tea stayed on the Dartmouth for weeks.
The Night of The Tea Party
One night, a small group of Patriots - the Sons of Liberty - dressed up as Mohawk Indians and sneakily aboard the Dartmouth. Once they crept on it, they dumped 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor, also known as 90,000 pounds of it. You can only imagine how furious the King of Great Britain had been. This act of protest proved to be one of the most critical points to the American Revolution.
Works Cited
- http://freedomflix.digital.scholastic.com/unitPage/node-34832/10014020/
- Mr. Dunn's Social Studies class