December 3rd‚ 2011 The Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party made a change in history‚ a rebellion that has a cause and effect. It was a cold December night in Boston. There were three famous ships‚ the Dartmouth‚ the Eleanor‚ and the Beaver were sitting in Boston harbor‚ their holds full of tea that wasn’t being unloaded because of the angry residents of Boston were threatened not to buy or use the tea. The government of Great Britain had passes the Tea Act‚ a law that almost guaranteed that
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companion vessels anchored at “Griffin’s Wharf” in Boston harbor. The Americans who had around 70 men‚ all hated the tea tax.There mission to destroy all the cargo of British East India Company tea. Many years later George Hewes shoemaker and participant in the Boston tea party. He remembered "We then were ordered by our commander to open the hatches and take out all the chests of tea and throw them overboard. And we immediately proceeded to execute his orders‚ first cutting and splitting the chests
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peace but can be completely different at certain periods of time. As a prevention from too much government intervention‚ the people of America have a representative dating since 1773‚called the Tea Party Movement. This movement wants the government to stick to the real meaning
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loss for the Republican Party‚ the Tea Party emerged seen as the savior the GOP needed‚ and in their eyes‚ the saviors of the collapsing country. The grassroots movement mainly composed of conservative‚ white middle-class citizens gained traction and exposure through Republican business elites‚ national advocates and funders‚ and media exposure‚ particularly conservative news sources with Fox News leading the way. With these outside factors and diffusion methods‚ Tea Party ideals quickly spread and
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The Tea Party Movement and The Occupy Movement The Tea Party movement originated in Great Britain in 1773 it later became known as the Boston Tea Party and protesters fought against taxes by the British without any governmental representation for the American colonists (Miller‚ 2012‚ p. 18). The Occupy movement originated in 2011 in a park in New York City‚ the financial district. This movement spread rapidly across to other cities. The Occupy movement is against corporate greed (Wood‚ J.). Both
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Boston Tea Party How was the Boston Tea Party started? the people that helped in the boston tea party were samuel adams‚ the sons of liberty‚ and a small group of men towards boston harbor. The act of american colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. for more refuge seeking to boost the troubled East India Company‚ British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston‚ New York‚ and Philadelphia all very much rejected tea shipments
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The Boston Tea Party of 1773 “drove up political hostility on both sides of the Atlantic” (Fredriksen 309). It was a political protest to the Tea Act which had been passed by the British Parliament in the same year to aid the East India Company which was on the verge of bankruptcy. On December 16 the Sons of Liberty reacted to British tax policies in Boston. The demonstrators‚ some of whom disguised as Mohawk Indians‚ boarded three tea ships‚ Dartmouth‚ Eleanor‚ and Beaver‚ sent by the East India
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generations are metaphorically speaking the same tune. The Tea Party movement began in the summer of 2009.The Occupy Wall Street movement was motioned by the Canadian activist group‚ Adbusters‚ and officially began on September 17‚ 2011. Protesting of these groups are the result of countless intrusions of the United States government and the unequal justice of the corporations that run the capitalist market. The Tea Party movement mainly consists of middle-aged members that largely
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Boston Tea party because the Colonist had enough of the King putting taxes on things without telling them. That night they threw a whole cargo of tea overboard into the sea that came from Britain. The Boston Tea Party had a greater impact leading the colonies towards fighting for Independence from Britain. The King was making taxes without telling the colonists which made them angry because the colonists wanted to talk to the king about the taxes and maybe they didn’t want the tax. The Tea Act was
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constitution. Throughout history many have felt that the government has not had the peoples best interest in mind and have united peacefully to bring about change. These movements include the great Boston Tea Party‚ the Women’s Suffrage Movement‚ and never could we forget Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.`s Civil Rights Movement. The Boson Tea Party‚ a mass protest on December 16th 1773‚ was a protest against the British government. This protest has immeasurable importance to the history of the United Sates.
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