What is the conflict of the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 1

The Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum (which is closed for renovations until the summer of 2009) has, as you might expect, one of the best summations of events leading to the famous "Boston Tea Party."

Here's the first paragraph. You can go to their website for more details.

DECEMBER 16, 1773

"Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left to bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit." -King George III

On May 10, 1773, the British parliament authorized the East India Co., which faced bankruptcy due to corruption and mismanagement, to export a half a million pounds of tea to the American colonies for the purpose of selling it without imposing upon the company the usual duties and tariffs. With these privileges, the company could undersell American merchants and monopolize the colonial tea trade. Not only did this action create an unfair commerce to the merchants of the colonies but it proved to be the spark that revived American passions about the issue of taxation without representation. To fully understand the resentment of the colonies to Great Britain and King George III, one must understand that this was not the first time that the colonists were treated unfairly. In previous years, the 13 colonies saw a number of commercial tariffs including the Sugar Act of 1764, which taxed sugar, coffee, and wine, the Stamp Act of 1765, which put a tax on all printed matter, such as newspapers and playing cards, and the Townshend Acts of 1767 which placed taxes on items like glass, paints, paper, and tea. The Tea Act of 1773 was the last straw.

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"If our trade be taxed, why not our lands, in short, everything we posses? They tax us without having legal representation." ~~Samuel Adams

"Well boys, you have had a fine, pleasant evening for your Indian caper, haven't you? But mind, you have got to pay the fiddler yet!" ~~British Admiral Montague

Answer 2

The Boston tea party was the result of the colonists revolting against the british. The British consistantly increased taxes on all the goods being provided to the colonies, in order to try and maintain some level of control over them. The colonists finally reached their breaking point and several men, dressed as native americans, stormed the shipping vessels and began throwing the barrels of tea into the water. Basically telling the British that enough was enough. Also, where the "taxation without representation" portion of our constitution came from.

Answer 3

The Boston Tea Party was an act of direct action by the American colonists against Great Britain in which they destroyed many crates of tea bricks on ships in Boston Harbor. The incident, which took place on Thursday, December 16, 1773, has been seen as helping to spark the American Revolution.

One of the critical reasons BEHIND the conflict was the British decisions on taxing the colonies despite a lack of representation in the Westminster Parliament.

Answer 4

The Boston Tea Party was a most uncivilized. event. Not only did the rebels dress up as local Indians but the effect of dumping the tea in Boston harbour made it undrinkable, even for Americans.

Answer 5

The Boston Tea Party was a result of the one that everyone got being so high taxed. The goverment was already taxing you to death, much like they do now.

Answer 6

The colonists in Boston, rather the unconventional Sons of Liberty, have been indignant with the Massachussetts Governor Hutchison for refusing to permit the colonists to commerce with the different u . s . a . than England. because of the fact the colonists ought to in user-friendly terms purchase British products, rather tea, British retailers have been able to value inflated costs for tea (the main well-known of those crooked retailers exchange into the East India buying and advertising employer). In reaction, the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Indians and crept aboard the East India buying and advertising employer's vessels and tossed the tea into the harbor. King George III, infuriated at this tutor of revolt, imposed the Boston Port invoice. This invoice exchange into the entire value of the tea that were destroyed. To pay off this debt, the king taxed the Bostonians mercilessly. The king additionally lashed out at Governor Hutchison, whose failure to regulate the Sons of Liberty he believed had brought about the incident. Hutchison exchange into replaced by potential of universal Thomas Gage, who might later lead the British forces at Bunker Hill.

Answer 7

the people of boston were pissed that they were being taxed so much on imports so they dumped all the tea over board