Boston Tea Party

[IceSpeed2]

This event is one of the most pivotal events in
American history according to the texts. It is pretty amazing
that most of the evidence for its occurence is circumstancial and
it probably was just the synthesis of a bunch of events. John
Han******* organized a boycott against British India Company's tea because
they had to pay taxes on it and by it on Britain's terms. It was
a rebellion against mercantilism. Funny, because the tea came
from China. Maybe Americans should sneak on to ships and throw
out imported Wal-Mart products nowdays.

That would be the modern equivalent for the Tea Party.
Edited by: IceSpeed2

 

[Bear-Arms]

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I stand by my claim that such an event did not occur!

 

[jaxvid]

It seems to me that the event was more costly to the owner of the tea then the government. I would not support destroying a mans personal property to get back at the government. However disfiguring public property would be acceptable.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Yep, what was so funny about the "Tea Party" is that those who participated dressed as Indians, so they wouldn't get the blame for it from the loyal Governor. Of course, many people from the city came out to watch it, and everyone reported it as having been done by a band of wild Indians. It's even more hilarious because Boston hadn't been "attacked" by Indians in almost a century when the Tea Party happened.

 

[IceSpeed2]

Isn't it a little excessive to censor a founding father's name?
Come on. Can someone turn that thing off? I am all for
keeping the world clean, but names are names.



I stand by the belief that the tea party was not one
event, or not one specific event.. It was a synthesis of several
incidents and myths. Incidents with people dressing up as indians
probably were common and minor around this time. There was
a lot of talk about how flawed the excessive taxing and forced
mercantilism was. There were probably several events like the tea
party. The tea party became a "positive scapegoat" for this
animosity.

People would have thrown tea out to show that they
did not want to trade on solely GB's terms. They did not want to
submit to a monopoly on tea and forced imports. Britain charged
whatever they wished for the tea.

An incident where men dumped tea out of boat
probably occurred, but the exposition and stories surrounding it are
false. It is like George Washington. He existed, but he did
not chop down a cherry tree(maybe he did, but he probably wasn't honest
about it). Or the Trojan war, a war probably happened, but it is
clouded in Greek mythology.



I think of it as the American Robin Hood.


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[Bear-Arms]

IceSpeed2, you profess we liter the sea with Chinese made products sold at Wal-Mart? Don't you know the danger that poses for marine life? I don't know about dressing like an indian, that could be very intolerant to the Native American population. But, if were gonna do this were gonna do it right. Were gonna get one of those banners that reads, Mission Accomplished just like Dubya had. That is really gonna stick it to big business!!! I am, so psyched!!

 

[Colonel_Reb]

I think the Tea Party happened too, and I also think it was part of a series of events in which the colonists rebelled against the Royal Governor and Parliament. They didn't blame the King for their problems until the real fighting started. IceSpeed2, you are correct when you say that the colonists dressed up like Indians to do similar things. That way, no one was prosecuted and those back in England didn't know it was really the colonists. There were many incidents such as this in colonial America.