Tea Act

The Boston Tea Party

Objective: I can discuss the events leading to the Revolution and draw conclusions about why the Revolution took place.

The Boston Tea Party

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The Tea Act of May 10th, 1773

After taxes like the stamp act, the sugar act, as well as after the Boston Massacre, the King of England started the Tea Act. This act placed a very high tax on tea. Even though this act lowered the price of tea, it still heavily taxed the colonists. They did not like being taxed without representation in England.

Multiple Choice

What good, or item, did the Tea Act of 1773 tax?

• Paper

• Ink

• Water

• Tea

Sons Of Liberty

A famous group of colonists in Boston, like Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, got together and had a meeting at the Old South Meeting House in Boston to create a plan. What was this plan?

Boston Tea Party, December 16th, 1773

Well, the plan was to have the Sons of Liberty and Colonists impersonate, or dress up as and pretend to be Native Americans in the middle of the night on December 16th, 1773. They boarded three of the ships that held the crates, or boxes, of tea and threw them over the side of the boat and into the Boston Port.

Multiple Choice

Who dressed up and pretended to be Native Americans?

• No one, it was the Native Americans.

• The Sons of Liberty and Colonists.

• The British.

While some supported the Boston Tea Party, others did not.

While Samuel Adams and Paul Revere were happy with the Boston Tea Party, other people like Benjamin Franklin and George Washington were not happy. They even offered to pay the British the amount of money owed for the tea.

Poll

Who do you agree with?

• The Colonists. They were only trying to get the British to leave them alone.

• The British. They lowered the price of tea, and were only trying to pay off the war dept.

• The Colonists. BUT I do not think they should have dumped the tea.

An Iconic Event...

This led to many acts passed by the British, but also accomplishments from the colonies of the Americas. This led to the Intolerable Acts, the First Continental Congress, and The American Revolutionary War.