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a friend's younger sister said it was because the British wanted everyone to think the Indidans threw the tea overboard.
2007-10-20 12:26:19 · 10 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
It was an attempt to hide the true identity of the perpetrators, just as modern bank robbers try to hide their true identities, or the train robbers of the late 1800's covered their faces to hide their identities also!
2007-10-20 12:39:18 · answer #1 · answered by Paully S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would the British want everyone to think that the Indians threw the tea overboard? The colonists pulled off the Tea Party, and it's called a disguise...
2007-10-20 12:30:16 · answer #2 · answered by TheOnlyBeldin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They were inspired by a vision of a sports playoff some 230+ years later; but dressing like Yankees would be no disguise, and nobody would believe Angels did it, so they pinned the deed on the Indians, instead. The upset in this ALCS is just karma getting even with Boston for it.
2007-10-20 12:51:10 · answer #3 · answered by Ezekiel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was obvious that the Indians did not dump the tea in Boston harbor. At the time of the Boston Tea Party, there were very few Indians left in Boston. The colonists simply disguised themselves so that they would not be recognized by the British and arrested.
2007-10-20 12:30:03 · answer #4 · answered by MrV 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I wasn't aware that they did, so I looked it up: According to the account of the participant Joshua Wyeth who was only, he only had few hours warning of what was intended to be done. It is unlikely that he had time to prepare an elaborate Indian costume. In the same account he mentions how he disguised his appearance. “To prevent discovery we agreed to wear ragged clothes and disfigure ourselves, dressing to resemble Indians” William Tudor, a law student in the office of John Adams and acquainted with some of the members of the Tea Party, remembered in an incident he witnessed. “Two of the person, who were a kind of Indian disguise, in a passing over Fort Hill to the scene of operations, met a British officer, who on observing them naturally enough drew his sword.”
2016-05-23 22:41:47 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh lord no.
The people who did it were risking their LIVES.
They didn't want to be recognized. That's all.
What they did was punishable by DEATH.
2007-10-20 12:30:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
They could have been hanged for treason if they were identified.
2007-10-20 12:37:10 · answer #7 · answered by obl_alive_and_well 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It was to conceal their identities.
2007-10-20 12:29:44 · answer #8 · answered by Lavrenti Beria 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yeah and scapegoat the injuns like the black guy did it. bostonians are racists.
2007-10-20 12:33:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
To not be noticed.
2007-10-20 12:33:54 · answer #10 · answered by rxing 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋