On December 16th 1773, in response to the Tea Act imposed by Great Britain, Bostonians made their way to Griffin’s Warf late in the night with thoughts of revolution in thei...
In Boston, Massachusetts, the Sons of Liberty protested Parliament's passage of the Tea Act in 1773 by throwing tons of taxed tea into Boston Harbor, an act that came to be kn...
The Boston Tea Party was the key-event for the Revolutionary War. With this act, the colonists started the violent part of the revolution. It was the first try of the coloni...
In 1773, Britain's East India Company was sitting on large stocks of tea that it could not sell in England. It was on the verge of bankruptcy. In an effo...
Economical changes occurred. When the Crown was in debt, many new taxes were placed on the colonists. . A significant act that was passed was the Tea Act of 1773 to aid the...
_THE BOSTON TEA PARTY (1763)
Imagine you are a merchant in Boston selling imported goods from England with a high tax on them, when three ships come in with 342 chests of t...
The American Revolution was the result of the colonist’s resentment toward British authority in America due to the implemented acts that raised taxes, the Boston Tea Party,...
According to the theory of mercantilism, the colonies only existed to serve the interests of Britain. But it seemed as if Britain was abusing their right over the colonies. Th...