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As the story goes, the cause of the Boston Tea Party was the rise in taxes by the British Parliment and taxation without representation. This is taught in most history classes in elementary and high school (Unless you have a really good teacher that knows what their doing).
The acual reason for the Boston Tea Party is that the tea was too cheap. The Americans were smuggling tea into Boston and other cities. When British Parliment discovered this, they lowered the price of tea, it was so low that the smugglers were no longer making money. So the Sons of Liberty threw the crates of tea into the ocean as a protest of these low prices.
Columbus didn't sail across the world to prove the earth was round. Europeans in this time period already new earth was round. The lie that europeans thought the world was flat was made by Washington Irving. 15 people already discovered the Americas before Columbus. Columbus went to the Americas to gain wealth and exploit the Native americans for slave trade

2006-09-14 15:42:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

10 answers

"How many people know those things"? I'd guess quite a few.

2006-09-14 16:35:23 · answer #1 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 1 0

Columbus did NOT go to the Americas with the intention of exploiting the natives, at least the first time. On his first trip, he had no idea the Americas existed. Yes, other Europeans suspected that the earth was round, but they, like Columbus, had no idea how BIG it was. No one knew that, instead of one big ocean, there were two big oceans separated by a whole great unknown land mass.
As for the tea theory, that's an interesting one. Hadn't heard it put quite that way before. Could be.

2006-09-15 13:04:45 · answer #2 · answered by Spel Chekker 4 · 0 0

the whole taxation without representation is a very overused political buzzphrase. The boston tea party was one of many many protests against the british economic system inflicted on ALL of their colonies -- we were the ones that squeeled first. the british lowered the price of tea because we switched to coffee -- the price drop came from basic supply-and-demand rules (over supply = lower price).

columbus sailed to discover India, not America. He wanted to find a different route to the 'spice islands' in the indies -- spices were critical to the european economy at the time. Columbus did not know America was here -- and even denied (at first) that he discovered new lands.

both of these events took place for economic reasons.

2006-09-16 09:53:15 · answer #3 · answered by melvinschmugmeier 6 · 0 0

There are many reasons why the Tea Party happened and why Columbus sailed to the Americas. You are limited in your views. It's true that Americans were unhappy with the taxes on tea but it is also true that people smuggled tea into the colonies.
Colombus did not discover the americas even though some give him credit. Why do you think that the americas are named after Amerigo Vespucci? His goal was not to travel there either. He wanted to find a quicker and cheaper route to the Orient and stumbled onto the americas.

2006-09-14 23:08:41 · answer #4 · answered by rubia0014 1 · 1 0

Taxes were levied and raised on all goods except tea, The tea was threwn to show their anger and to make a point. Not because it was too cheap. It was a union of sorts and to send a message. In other words they were not having any of it, and shewed their disappointment, I wish people had more of the same attitude today, band together I mean when they know they are being stiffed by bureacratic thinking.

People did believe the world was flat, when Columbus arrived in the America's he thought he was in India, therfore assumed the natives of the land were Indians. Where did you go to school.

2006-09-14 23:04:01 · answer #5 · answered by Neptune2bsure 6 · 1 0

No one alive today can answer your question with absolute certainty. Unless you got your information from an eyewitness, I don't think you can be sure of your information. If you or someone else read this in a book, you are reciting the information given by that author and you don't know where they got their information from either. So how can anyone living today be 100% sure of why the tea was thrown in the harbor and why Columbus sailed to the Americas? And with all we have to worry about with gas prices and wars and high cost of living and low wages, do we need to add this to our plate as weli?

2006-09-14 22:53:16 · answer #6 · answered by Big mama 4 · 0 1

Did you know that the Boston Tea Paty folks paid for the tea they threw overboard?

2006-09-15 00:04:27 · answer #7 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0 0

I'm guessing 14 million in the US and Canada.

2006-09-14 23:44:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

If you know the answers, why are you posting here?

2006-09-14 22:49:39 · answer #9 · answered by notyou311 7 · 1 0

Always all about $...yuck

2006-09-14 22:47:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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