The Boston Tea Party: Causes Of The American Revolution

Abstract

Between 1770 and 1790, the colonists toss off the British rule to create a new nation and an essential form of government based on the idea that people have their own rights to govern themselves. The American Revolution was started from many causes that included major battles, such as the Boston Tea Party, the battle of Concord & Lexington. There are much more causes that led to this.

I. Introduction

The American Revolution was a war between Great Britain and America as America was fighting for their independence. The colonists disliked the way they were being treated by the British. Small arguments have led to larger fights that got to the point where America started to fight for their independence.

II. The Boston Tea Party

One

The Quartering Acts was that the king forced the colonists to take the British troops into their homes. The colonists were aggravated by this law. They were being underprivileged of the British rights they had possessed. The people had to expose their children to the British soldiers who were disliked by any of the colonies. They were being shoved into their homes against their will; the people were infuriated with a good reason. Another Act was the Massachusetts Government Act. The act was designed to punish the residents of Boston for the incident of the Boston Tea Party. Another Act was the Boston Port Act in which the king shut down the port of Boston to all trade separately from that with Britain until they pay back all of the tea that was lost. Another Act was the Administrations of Justice Act, this allowed British officials to get away with almost any crime they have done. The colonists called this the ‘’Murder Act’’ because they were worried that the British officials would be able to slaughter crowds without any trial. This infuriated the colonies because the British officials were basically allowed to get away with murder. Another Act was the Quebec act which simply meant to prevent the colonist’s disturbance from spreading to Canada. They opposed to the special freedom given to citizens of Quebec and to a facility recognizing Roman Catholicism.

The colonists began to accumulate arms and prepare for what they felt was an inevitable battle with the oppressive British Army. The Battle of Lexington occurred because a loyalist to the King, General Gage, had received secret commands from Dartmouth to take the patriots’ weapons, in case they riot against them. The British had to walk through Lexington in order to get to Concord, but since they had met up with patriots ready to fight in Lexington, a battle stemmed. How the patriot leaders got word of this was to have come from Margaret Kemble Gage. She was General Gage’s wife and supported the patriot’s work more than she did with her husband’s. On April 19, 1775, the Battle of Lexington began. When Captain Parker assembled his small army near Lexington, he found out that his army was too small to take on the British force. “Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”1. A British Lieutenant rode ahead of his positions, waving his sword in the air and shouting to the patriots, “Lay down your arms, you damned rebels or you are all dead men!”2. Both Parker and the British officer gave their men orders not to shoot. Captain Parker even order the men to separate to ease the commotion; however, his men were unable to hear him because of the commotion and his encounter with tuberculosis earlier. At that point, an unknown shot came from someone in the ranks