From what country was the tea in Boston harbour?

Answer 1

England had sent the tea over, but the taxes were so high the Americans dressed as Indians and dumped it in the harbor.

Answer 2

The tea that the Sons of Liberty dumped into Boston Harbor arrived in the colonies from England. But it most likely started it's journey in India or China. After all, the tea tossed overboard was owned by the British East India Company.

The Boston Tea Party was an open act of rebellion against the British for the creation of the Tea Act. The act hurt colonial merchants, kept the tax on tea in place and prevented the colonists from getting tea from other sources.

The most significant issue it added fuel to was the ongoing colonial dispute over taxation without representation. The cradle issue of the Revolutionary War.

On The night of December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty -- dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded three British ships and dumped a staggering 45-tons of tea into Boston Harbor. It turned the color of the harbors water a light brown for days.

Within a year the First Continental Congress would meet and the path to open war with the crown was an inevitability.

Oddly, why coffee is more popular in American than Britain can be traced back to this event. So Starbucks owes its success to a bunch of revolutionaries dressed up as Indians.

Hope this helps. --Andy

Answer 3

England had recently completed the French and Indian War, fought, from England's point of view, to free the colony from French influence and stabilize trade. It was the feeling of Parliament that as a result, it was not unreasonable that the colonists shoulder the majority of the cost. After all, the war had been fought for their benefit. Charles Townshend presented the first tax measures which today are known by his name. They imposed a higher tax on newspapers (which they considered far too outspoken in America), tavern licenses (too much free speech there), legal documents, marriage licenses, and docking papers. The colonists rebelled against taxes imposed upon them without their consent and which were so repressive. New, heavier taxes were leveled by Parliament for such rebellion. Among these was, in June 1767, the tea tax that was to become the watershed of America's desire for freedom. (Townshend died three months later of a fever never to know his tax measures helped create a free nation.)

The colonists rebelled and openly purchased imported tea, largely Dutch in origin. The John company, already in deep financial trouble saw its profits fall even further. By 1773 the John Company merged with the East India Company for structural stability and pleaded with the Crown for assistance. The new Lord of the Treasury, Lord North, as a response to this pressure, granted to the new Company permission to sell directly to the colonists, by-passing the colonial merchants and pocketing the difference. In plotting this strategy, England was counting on the well known passion among American women for tea to force consumption. It was a major miscalculation. Throughout the colonies, women pledged publicly at meetings and in newspapers not to drink English sold tea until their free rights (and those of their merchant husbands) were restored.
And at that time most tea came from China.

Answer 4

East Indian tea company from India

Answer 5

Good question. The boycot that John Hancock started was against the British East Indian Company. They usually got their tea from China. This exact shipment though, I'm not 100% sure if it was from China or not.

Answer 6

the China answers are correct..while the ships belonged to the British East India Company, the East Indies arent, as you would expect, India, but China, Indonesia, Phillipines, Malaysia, Vietnam...that part of the world.....tea wasnt grown in India till the 1860's and then mostly in Ceylon, today's independent country of Sri Lanka

Answer 7

India

Answer 8

Proably India.

Answer 9

Hi. I would guess China but that seems too obvious. Maybe India?

Answer 10

China.