How The Aftermath And Acts That Followed The Boston Tea Party

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The Aftermath and Acts That Followed the Boston Tea Party

Karla Valeria Gonzalez
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Mr. Isaac G. Pietrzak
U.S. History 1301
November 4, 2016
On the Thursday in December 16th of the year 1773, several men began to dump what is now worth over a million dollars of British tea into the Boston Harbor. This later became known as the famous Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was basically the initial cause of the aftermath. The Intolerable Acts, the Continental Congresses, and battles following the Boston Tea Party were the beginning to our freedom.
To start off, the Intolerable Acts were a part of the effects of the Boston Tea Party. They were basically a punishment from Britain to the colonists …show more content…

This congress was attended by 56 representatives/delegates to discuss all of the Intolerable Acts, and what their purposes were. Not only did they discuss that, but they also discussed what their options were as a nation, now that they had certain restrains on them. (Add extra info on the First Continental Congress.
In addition, not only was the a First Continental Congress, but a second. When this Second Continental Congress was held, the representatives/delegates had a bit more freedom. Within this, some results were the Declaration of Causes, and the Olive Branch Position. (Add more information on the second continental congress, the declaration of causes, and the olive branch petition.) To add on, the results od the Boston Tea Party weren’t only acts and meetings, but battles as well. After the Tea party many patriots realized that it was time to not only ask for their freedom, but to fight for their freedom as well, and earn their freedom. Therefore the two most important battles that led to the rest of the American Revolution were the Battles of Lexington and Concord. (Expand on both battles) Minutemen were in the American militia and were ready to take on a fight against Britain. The Battle of Concord came before the Battle of Lexington. The American Militia was out-numbered by the Britain at first. Later on, throughout the Battle of Lexington and the other battles in the revolution, things to …show more content…

The events and acts that followed the Boston Tea Party were, and still are very crucial to America and Britain, and their history. They’ve molded the countries into the countries they have become now.

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Primary Sources
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"Great Britain: Parliament- The Boston Port Act: March 31, 1774." Yale Law School, 2008. Accessed November 4, 2016. The Avalon Project. Path: History.
Thatcher, B. B. “Traits of the Tea Party: Being a Memoir of George R.T. Hewes, One of the Last of Its Survivors: With a History of That Transaction, Reminiscences of the Massacre, and the Siege, and Other Stories of Old times. “New York: Harper & Bros., 1835.

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Unger, Harlow G. American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2011.
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Forest, Christopher Henry. The Rebellios Colonists and the Causes of the American Revolution. 2015.

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