Aim: What is the significance of the Boston Tea Party?

Long Road Leading to Tea Party The Boston Tea Party was a result of a long road of tension between the Colonists and England Boston is the hot bead of anti-British activity Boston Massacre (1770) Sons of Liberty Boycotts of British good Lets Do Some Review

British Enforcement of Smuggling Laws British need money to pay off debts from French and Indian War Catch smugglers; which was everyone 1763: All people accused of smuggling would be tried in Admiralty Courts Not colonial courts where accused would be acquitted by sympathetic juries

Sugar Act (1764) Raised taxes on sugar, molasses, silk, wine, and coffee http://blogs.glam.com/glamspirit/files/2009/10/sugar.jpg

Stamp Act (1765) Taxed all printed materials Newspapers Mortgages Licenses Playing Cards Etc. Repealed in 1766

Townshend Act (1767) Taxes on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea Allowed British customs officers to search any ship. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/CharlesTownshend.jpg/200px-CharlesTownshend.jpg

Boston Massacre (1770) British troops were sent to the colonies to enforce the Acts Snow balls and rocks thrown at soldiers No one knows how shots first fired 5 Colonists Dead John Adams: Boston Massacre Scene http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/usa/BostonMassacre1.jpg

Causes of Boston Tea Party British enforcement of smuggling duties The Sugar Act (1764) Stamp Act (1765) Townshend Acts (1767) Boston Massacre (1770) Tea Act (1773) http://what-buddha-said.net/Pics/cause-and-effect.jpg

Tea Act (1773) Actually lowered the cost of tea! Made British shipped Tea cheaper than the Colonial smuggled Dutch Tea Colonists were set to lose lots of revenue http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/college_guide/images/tea_cup.jpg

What is the Boston Tea Party? December 17, 1773 150 Men dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor Major Leaders: John Hancock and Sam Adams

Results Results 1. Britain punishes Boston (close down Boston harbor…troops come to occupy Boston) 2. Symbolic act of resistance…news spreads throughout the colonies and many colonists cheer Bostonians for their resistance to British

Results (cont’d) 3. Similar Tea Parties: Philadelphia, Charleston S.C., NYC, Princeton N.J., York, Maine 4. The issue was never the tea but how the tax was passed without American representation; United States Congress taxed tea from 1789 to 1872.

http://www.teaparty.org/ (end with a look at this) School house rock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-9pDZMRCpQ America the story of US: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwEX_YVyAS4 BBC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5u5NVN3whg COMMACK: http://www.history.com/topics/boston-tea-party/videos

Questions How did each tax/event cause the Boston Tea Party? Which one was the most important? Which one was the least important? How would Britain respond to the Party?