Boston tea party

The Boston Tea Party, protesting the English tax on tea.

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest staged on December 16, 1773 at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists.

Boston Tea Party Cause and Effect Anchor Chart American Revolution 5th Grade Social Studies

The Tea Act of 1773 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on May 10, 1773. It was designed to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies. It was selling excess tea at a reduced price.

Very few colonists wanted or even envisaged independence at this stage. (Dickinson had hinted at such a possibility with expressions of pain that were obviously sincere.) The colonial struggle for power, although charged with intense feeling, was not an attempt to change government structure but an argument over legal interpretation. The core of the colonial case was that, as British subjects, they were entitled to the same privileges as their fellow subjects in Britain. They could not…

This directed drawing of the Boston Tea Party is a great way to add an art component to a study of American history. Follow it up with a cup of Liberty Tea!

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