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Essay / Boston Tea Party - 1026
The Boston Tea Party was an important historical event that occurred on the night of December 16, 1773. It involved a difficult situation between the British government and the American colonies. The number one priority was taxes, which Britain demanded as payment for the American colonies. In 1765, the Stamp Act was created by Parliament to provide fishing money for Native Americans and American settlers. It was an act hated by the American colonists and was repealed by Parliament for many reasons. The British government created other laws to maintain all the problems they were facing; which later the Boston Tea Part focused on parliamentary law. The Americans were well aware of the financial demands of the British Parliament. They were not blinded by all this and simply did what the British said. In 1765, an organization maintained at the lower level, called Sons and Daughters of Liberty, was created for the British to boycott their products. By early 1773, the Massachusetts and Virginia assemblies had created the Committees of Correspondence, which were a group responsible for communicating any threats manifested by any of the American colonies. That being said, Parliament passed the Tea Act, which played a significant role in the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act allowed the East India Company to undercut colonial tea merchants in the American market. It was the start of something new. Early in 1773, the East India Company found that it had a large quantity of tea in stock and could not circulate or sell it in England at all; they were on the verge of going bankrupt. With the Tea Act, he was there to prevent that from happening. Tea...... middle of paper ...... created quite a situation. The colonists were well organized to oppose the British and their policy of acts involving tea. With Lord North's mistake and the opportunity for the Tea Company to avoid paying customs duties and sell tea in America more cheaply. Groups from Boston dumped all their goods into the port rather than face another confrontation and accept anything that would lower British standards. Tea became the symbol of the British by their government. Boston was in the middle of a confrontation on the night of December 16, 1773. It was a date that changed world history to the maximum. A revolutionary was planned for the world for a year. As has been said and done, Americans would not give up their rights, would not be allowed to give up anything they had been promised, and would not give up their freedom to anyone but themselves..