Road to Revolution6th periodBrooklyn Martin Paragraph #1- introductionHave you ever wondered about the revolutionary war? The wonderful and crazy Revolutionary war was exciting time period. The revolutionary war had many events. Those events include the following: The Navigation Acts, French and Indian war, Pontiac's rebellion and Proclamation of 1763, The sugar act, The Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, The Townshend, The Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea Party, and The Intolerable Acts. However, the very first event out of all the awful yet amazing events, the Navigation Acts started it all.Paragraph #2- Navigation Acts of 1660 Do you love sugar for food and drinks? How about cotton for your clothes? The Navigation Acts was a time where …show more content…
However, they will keep the tax on the tea, ultimately leading to the Boston Tea Party of 1773.Paragraph #10- The Boston Tea Party 1773Now we are here to the next event after the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party. Now, the tear act is passed. This will make British tea cheaper than colonial tea. Since this is passed, now colonist are ordered to purchase tea from British East India Company only. The British liked this but the colonists didn’t at all. Since the colonist did not like it, they decided to protest. The way they protested was by dumping shipments of British tea into the Boston Harbor. In result of this so called “Tea Party,” the Intolerable Acts comes next. Paragraph #11- Intolerable acts 1774 The Intolerable Acts, the end of the Road to Revolution. The Intolerable Acts were the american patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament. The British could only put up with so much, and when the tea got dumped into the Boston Harbor, they had enough. The Boston Harbor becomes closed until the tea is paid for, British troops are quartered, Massachusetts’ charter is cancelled, royal officials accused of crimes will be sent back to Britain to stand trial, Gen. Thomas Gage became new governor of MA. Colonists’ resentment toward Britain builds. Colonists start to consider their options of separating from Great Britain. Even though they want to separate from Great Britain, they are still hoping to work out their differences automatically. And that is the end of the Road to Revolution. Paragraph #12- ConclusionHere we are, at the end of the Road to Revolution. There was so many good and bad things that happened because the British and the colonists. It all started with the Navigation Acts of 1660. The next events after that include the following: The French and Indian War, Pontiac's Rebellion & Proclamation, The Sugar Act, The Stamp Act, Declaratory Act,
They dumped about 324 chests of tea into the boston harbor, destroying all of the tea. The British government responded brutally and it later escalated to the American Revolution. Intolerable Acts: A series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for throwing a large amount of tea into Boston harbor.
On May 10, 1773 the British Parliament imposed a tax on the American colonists called the Tea Act. The Tea Act allowed the British East India Company to be excluded from paying taxes which prevented American tea companies to set competitive prices to buyers. On December 16, 1773 Samuel Adams and other colonists disguised themselves as Indians, boarded the ship British tea ships and threw all the tea into the bay. This was known later as the Boston Tea Party.
The British act finally pushed the colonists from protests was the Tea Act of 1773 proposed by Lord North was placed. It began when the East India company almost was in bankruptcy since their tea was barely bought; much of Britain's money was used for the French and Indian War and was not able to help the company get out of their crisis. The Tea Act of 1773 lowered the prices of tea and also added tax to it to the point it created monopoly and it caused colonial merchants to lose money since they were no longer able to sell tea within the colonies anymore. It also allowed the East India Company to be the only one to ship to the colonies which meant that the company was the only way for colonists to get tea from.
The Intolerable Acts: The Breaking Point Two hundred and forty-one years ago, British Parliament passed the Coercive Acts which not only punished the colonists’ defiant behavior but also sparked a war that would change the world forever. The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts that punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party, they would be restricted until they paid for the tea they dumped into the harbor. The Coercive Acts are a series of acts that were in direct response to the Boston Tea Party that punished the colonists for this event, led to the need for another continental congress meeting, and ultimately impacted the decision for the colonist to declare independence. First, the colonists were punished for the Boston Tea Party. The colonists were punished for the
The Intolerable Acts were five laws that were passed by the British Parliament against the American Colonies in 1774. They were given the name "Intolerable Acts" by American Patriots who felt they simply could not "tolerate" such unfair laws. The British passed these acts as punishment for the Boston Tea Party. The Intolerable Acts (also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.
This event was the colonists way to defy the British government and the ridiculous laws enforced upon
On the twentieth day, December 16, a crowd gathered to talk about what will happen, but nothing came of it until “…100 to 150 men disguised as Mohawk Indians… boarded the ships and dumped over 90,000 pounds of tea…”(148) an event that is now known as the Boston Tea Party. This caused Lord North and Parliament to issue the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts. They were a series of laws and regulations for the colonies which angered the colonists. This issue lead to the First Continental Congress, which had notables figures from different colonies to discuss the crisis. “Many colonists from New Hampshire to Georgia realize that the problems of British rule went far beyond questions of nonconsensual taxations.
A few years gone by and they passed yet another act known as the Intolerable Acts. They passed this act because in December of 1773, “a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.” (American Revolutionary History) Parliament decided to pass those acts to uphold imperial authority in
Second, they continued to place heavy taxes on the colonists and would pass laws such as the Stamp Act, the Townshend Tariffs, and the Tea Act to increase the taxes for the colonists. The colonists, of course, were very upset by this and felt that they were being treated unfair. This resulted in major conflict between the British supporters, which were called “loyalists,” and the colonists that protested against the British, that were known as the “patriots.” Other important and disastrous events soon followed with all of the taxation such as, the Boston Massacre
These acts asserted more British control over the colonies by demanding internal and external taxes on the goods the colonists produced and received. The British sent troops to enforce tax and duty laws, attempting to thwart the resistance, which ultimately backfired. The Boston Massacre in 1770 brought change to both sides, with the British repealing some rules of the acts and the colonists reevaluating just how strong the resistance should be. Although the British seemingly began to ease their control over the colonies, several more instances of taxation and rule tipped the colonists into total resistance. The Boston Tea Party brought conflict to a new level and drove the British to crate the Coercive Acts, which imposed additional restrictions on the colonists by closing their ports and stripping their rights of
The Boston Port Act closed down the Boston Port until the colonists paid for all the tea they had dumped into the sea. The Massachusetts Government Act permanently dismissed the Massachusetts Assembly of any power. The Justice Act allowed any British soldier who kills a rioter a trial in England. Finally, the Quartering Act allowed the British army to seize any property in the colonies that was in possession of a suspected rebel. Additionally, outside the Intolerable Acts, the British passed the Quebec Act, which extended the boundaries of Quebec south to the
“Crying out against ‘taxation without representation,’ the colonists responded by boycotting”(Unknown,1774). They really didn’t like being taxed on so one of the things they did was boycotting. They also dumped tea bags in the Boston Harbor. “...by our commander to open the hatches and take out all the chests of tea and throw them overboard”(Hughes,1773). They threw the tea bags and after they found out they got really mad because everything was destroyed so the British created The Intolerable
The colonists tried to tell the British that they did not like the law and they didn’t listen so the colonists tipped lots of the British tea into the harbor to show they really don’t like the law. The Intolerable Acts began when the British hoped to force the colonists for the tea lost in the harbor and to obey British rule. The Coercive Acts closed the port of Boston and imposed military rule on all of Massachusetts. The colonists could not tolerate the acts. On the day the acts went into effect, flags throughout the colonies were flown
Tensions were high in Boston between the British and the Colonists. Between the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the Boston Tea Party in 1773, Britain was very upset with Boston. King George III, the Lord North- led British government and many of the British citizens were very upset and irritated when they found out that the Boston colonists had made “Tea with salt water”. Once the parliament heard of their escapade, they began thinking of a way to insure that there would be no more uprisings in the Massachusetts colony.
When the British ships arrived in the Boston Harbor The colonist wanted the tea shipped back to England with out payment of tax. Then the royal governor of England insisted on payment of tax. On December 16 a group of men know as the Sons of Liberty disguised there self as Indians and boarded the British ships and dumped all of the tea into the Boston harbor. After that happened parliament passed Coercive Acts. Theses act were put in to place to punish the colonist for dumping the British tea into the Boston harbor.