do you think the boston tea party was a good idea to protest? please give me 4 reasons why or why not. Do you think it's okay to destroy someone else's property?
2006-09-21 15:03:09 · 7 answers · asked by waterlily612786 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
~I think it was a wonderful idea because:
1. I prefer coffee to tea anyway, so dump the crap in the bay.
2. Given the state of Boston Harbor at the time, the dumped tea helped to settle out the raw sewage and other pollutants.
3. Anything will improve the flavor of cod. The tea had to boost the fish market sales.
4. Given that the patriotic terrorists were decked out as heathen savages, it gave whitey an excuse to go out and make more "good" indians.
Certainly it is okay to destroy someone else's property if it benefits me. If it hurts me, the vandals ought to be lined up against the wall and shot.
Happy homeworking. Let me know how we did on this one, ok?
2006-09-21 15:11:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Boston Tea Party was good:
1) nothing but the tea cargo was destroyed. The ships, crew and other cargos were unharmed by the Sons of Liberty. The next day, they even sent someone around to fix the one padlock they had broken
2) as the tea tax was levelled against the colonies without their consent, the Tea Party was an expression of the colonists' hatred of Taxation Without Representation.
3) the shipment of tea to the colonies was controlled by a monopoly, the British East India Company, which was one of the most powerful, and most evil corporations to ever exist. The British East India Company also caused the Opium Wars with China and their expansion of the opium trade lead to the expanded cultivation of opium in Asia and this led to Afghanistan being the world's #1 producer of opium today. A strike against such an evil organization is always good.
4) The Boston Tea Party is known around the world and has been inspirational to other rebels. For example, Erik H. Erikson records in his book "Gandhi's Truth" that when Mahatma Gandhi met with the British viceroy in 1930 after the Indian salt protest campaign, Gandhi took some duty-free salt from his shawl and said, with a smile, that the salt was "to remind us of the famous Boston Tea Party."
The Boston Tea Party was bad:
1) it led to further punitive action on the part of the British government
2) Benjamin Franklin opposed it. He even offered to pay for the destroyed tea out of his own money.
3) The Tea Act didn't add any more taxes to tea; A lot of colonists made their living by smuggling tea and the Tea Act made legal tea cheaper than smuggled tea. The Tea Act hurt the income of smugglers, not ordinary citizens. John Hancock was a tea smuggler and he was mad that the Tea Act hurt his pocketbook, not out of any sense of moral outrage.
4) basically, the Sons of Liberty used the Tea Act in their propaganda campaign, inflating it all out of proportion to its actual effect. This continues today and Americans are woefully ignorant as to how much of the Revolution was based on real events and how much on propoganda.
2006-09-24 12:03:43 · answer #2 · answered by Duane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I still won't drink any tea to this day, thats how mad I am at the British for that TEA TAX over 100 years ago, my shrink says that I hold grudges for too long.
2006-09-21 22:11:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please read about the Boston Tea party first before i answer you as my answer to you would take a lot more space thab we have here and i don't really think you know exactly what or why the Boston Tea Party happened
2006-09-21 22:08:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'll help!! =]
Yes because it helped them gain supporters and it eventually led the way to Revolution and the fight against King George. They dumped all the Bristish tea in the harbor and showed King GEORGIE they weren't taking this anymore ! =]
stupid how they dressed as Indians though. hahha
2006-09-21 22:18:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was a good idea.........
it was part of the cause of the revolutionary war. - american independence from the british.
it was not a good idea...........
it was probably not ok for them to dump all that tea, i think in modern day dollars they threw away millions of dollars worth of tea.
also not a good idea because it led to the intolerable acts.
2006-09-21 22:08:01 · answer #6 · answered by ChissaSedai 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Do your own homework.
2006-09-21 22:05:08 · answer #7 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋