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Essay On The Boston Tea Party

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The American British colonies decided to seek independence from the British Empire due to the fact that so much stuff started to take place. As far as the American people living they was so use to being their own bosses and doing things on their own in many ways. The people started to think too many laws were being made causing them to lose a lot of their freedom and certain laws that they already had. You have the Boston Tea party, the stamp act and the sugar act that caused problems, those two things itself put higher taxes on the things the people were buying on a regular day to day basis. A lot of people had stated that they hadn’t even voted for those people to pass the law as far as them raising taxes nor to be able to create the tax law. Of course people then start to feel as if they didn’t have a say so about the things that started to go on and take place. People started to feel as if they had to do whatever the government wanted to do. Everything mainly took place around 1763 through 1776 the British felt that they were being watched like children, they started to feel ignored, and of course the economy itself was a huge debate. The British started to feel that the colonist was being very unfair not …show more content…

The Boston tea party was a main focus well event leading to the American Revolution. What caused this act was the saying taxation without representation and they felt as if they were being unfairly taxed as I stated before. The sons of liberty were the people who had a lot to do with the Boston tea party, they threw 342 barrels into the Boston harbor. They threw the tea overboard due to the fact that they didn’t want the tea being consumed or sold leading them to destroy all the tea well some of it. The tea party was also protested by certain colonist and that the tea act had been imposed by the British government. The act was also to increase deposits being sold with the

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