What prompted the boston tea party?

Answer 1

It was more based in economic terms. It's actually covered in Microeconomics. The standard phrase is taxation w/o representation. Historically, Samuel Adams was by trade a smuggler in colonial times. One of the things he smuggled was TEA. The West Indies Trade Co. was in financial straits after funding many of BR's colonies. Tea was a source of revenue, that's what they traded in. So with permission from BR, they were bringing tea into the harbor below price in Boston. This actually under cut the prices and flooded the market with cheap tea. A similar current store does the same thing..Walmart. So they had a party and dumped tea. Taxation without representation is the battle cry, but there's plenty of history showing our founding fathers to be self-serving in many ways!

Answer 2

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What prompted the boston tea party?

Answer 3

Taxation without representation. That is, the government in Britain expected the colonists in America to pay taxes, like the counties in England.

However, the counties in England had representatives in the Houses of Parliament who would lobby for the interests of their constituants (folks who lived there).

The American colonists did not have this and it is because their government would not provide this that they chose to declare their independance.

Throwing all that tea into the Boston harbour was protest expressing their discontent. It was also a great waste of tea.

Answer 4

Taxation of tea brought on the Boston tea party. The colonials thought that dumping the tea into the harbor would make their point. It certainly horrified the king's ministers. It was just one of incidents that brought about even more stern measures against the colonies. There were other more heavy handed acts of Parliament to follow.

Answer 5

Well, it is a long story, you see, the Bostonians were without tea for a very long time, and when a British ship finally arrived with a cargo hold of tea, they decided to hold a party to celebrate the event, but those damn Indians got wind of the party, and due to the Indians not being invited, they decided to crash the event, and they commenced to throw all the tea overboard to ruin the party, which they did.
There is your answer, I hope you get an "A" on your school test.

Answer 6

One theory is the colonial merchants saw the discounted cost of the tea as an attempt to take their business. Like when Wal-Mart comes to a town and the low prices make it where the local stores cannot compete so they lose business and have to shut down. This is what the colonists thought was happening.
There is also the underlying issues of the time. but those have already been mentioned.

Answer 7

The hype over the so called Boston Massacre and the Townshend Acts

Answer 8

the british made troops stay in the colonists' houses making them pay for both their family and the troops. also the british lowered their tax on tea and prevented colonists from receiving dutch tea(which colonists liked better) making the colonists angry and that led to 35 to 60 men throwing tea into the harbor.

Answer 9

hmmm they had too much tea -- and they could party too -- but they were deprived of their basic right "taxation without representation" was the norm --i.e. in simple terms they were paying the fees but did not have the right to elect their own representatives to make decisions. thus, this prompted the revolution. vignette from history.

Answer 10

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