There were a lot of things that led to the American Revolution, and The Boston Tea Party was one of them. The Boston Tea Party happened on December 16, 1773. A group of about 60 colonists were disguised as Native Americans and they dumped 3 ships of tea into the Harbor. They did this because they were complaining about the way British government treated them. The British made them pay taxes on goods. Other colonies were taxed on goods by Britain like tea as well and did different kinds of protesting. This was part of the protests against the Tea Act. When the British realized that the tea was ruined, they made some new laws that were supposed to punish the colonists. One of the laws was that they would close Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the tea that was ruined. The Boston Tea Party was a very big protest!

The British passed many acts which caused tensions between Britain and the colonists before the Boston Massacre, March 5th, 1770. In the fall of 1768, more British soldiers were sent from England to keep the colonists in line. The Boston Massacre was an eruption of tensions between the colonists and British soldiers. Both sides went kind of crazy! The British were passing acts like the Townsend Act which taxed colonist on imports from the colonies. The colonist protested and eventually a group of colonists surrounded soldiers in Boston.  British soldiers fired into crowd. Crispus Attucks, who was one of the first people to come to America, got killed with four others in the Boston Massacre. People were outraged! There were lots of anti-propaganda and fighting with snowballs, gears and oyster shells. This is one of the many things that caused the American Revolution.

The British passed many acts that caused tension between the British and the colonists and eventually caused the Revolution. The Quartering Act occurred in 1765. It was a law that made the colonists house British soldiers and give them supplies. Before the law was made, a lot of the British soldiers didn’t have a place to stay because a lot of the colonists weren’t willing to house them. Eventually they made a law that said they had to house them. This law caused anxiety in the colonies because the colonists were scared that the government was trying to take away their freedom. It also made the colonists angry because they didn’t want to have British soldiers stay in their house without being asked. This act was one of the many acts that caused tension between the British and the colonists.

The Stamp Act in 1765, was a tax that required colonists to pay a tax on every single piece of printed paper they used. Once a month they would go  house to house to give out stamps.  Colonists would get a stamp when the taxes had been paid. In addition to taxes, they also gave stamps for wills and contracts. They gave stamps to the people who paid the taxes, because they used the money to pay off Britain’s debt. They also did this because when they got money, the British felt threatened. The effects of the Stamp Act were that the colonists got angry because they felt like they did not deserve to be taxed. Another effect was that it was also a threat to the political rights. The Stamp Act encouraged the revolution.

The Stamp act is an act that made the colonist mad! The Stamp Act was to get back money from the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War was a battle over land. After the war Great Britain went into debt. They needed to pay troops stationed in America after the French and Indian War. They taxed the colonists by requiring that many printed items be made on stamped paper. Printed materials included legal documents, magazines, playing cards and paper.This made the colonists furious! Then they lifted the Stamp Act. For the most part, I think none of the colonists liked the Stamp Act.

The Boston Tea Party was one of the major events leading up to the American Revolution. The Boston Tea Party was when some of the Patriots dumped 500,000 lbs. of tea into the Boston Harbor because King George III taxed them on tea, and they were closed off to other countries that sold and traded tea. Once King George heard what had happened at the Boston Tea Party, he decided to close the Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party was a major event in the American Revolution.

The Boston Tea Party was an event where colonists dumped 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. In the middle of December of 1773, a group of colonists disguised as Native Americans dumped 500,000 lbs. of tea overboard. The reason the Boston Tea Party occurred was because the colonists thought it wasn’t fair to be highly taxed on everything including tea. The Boston Tea Party is what was thought to have started the Tea Act (also 1773). The colonists believed that it interfered with their rights of being Englishmen.

The effects of this event were:

• The British Government was mad because of the colonists action.
• The news of people dumping tea overboard reached England on January 20, 1774 (only 5 weeks!)

The news reached England in 35 days. It had to go 3,280 miles! In other words, over the Atlantic Ocean.

Hey, I am sorry I have to tell you this but I don’t think we can stand as one anymore. I have a right to be whatever I want because you’re not the boss of me. You’re not God and we are all human. I think our relationship is so bad that it just won’t work anymore. Therefore, we need to break up.

I have thought about this a lot and there is nothing you can do to change my mind because I know that you won’t change. I have asked you many times and nothing worked. Unless we break up, we will continue on the same bad path. We are just not good together. And, you are so abusive that I have to break up with you because you act like a jerk. I don’t feel safe with you.

I have suffered for so long with your selfishness, I can’t take it anymore. Let me set you straight with some obvious reasons.

1. You try to intimidate me by having your friends follow and threaten me everywhere I go.
2. You don’t give me any breathing room! I can’t even talk to my friends alone without you!
3. You make me pay for things I shouldn’t even pay for! It’s either your way or the highway. I have no say in anything.

I have asked you nicely so many times and you just won’t listen. We are both human! Sometimes I wonder if you even have a heart…and if you do, I haven’t seen you use it with me.

That’s why from this moment on, we are over. The only person in charge of me anymore is me.

See ya.