Boston Tea Party

Boston Tea Party

Multiple Choice

Review: What was the name of the tax on paper in the British Colonies?

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Townshend Act

• Currency Act

Multiple Choice

Review: What was the slogan of the colonists protesting against unfair taxes?

• No taxation without salutation

• No taxation without compensation

• No taxation without representation

• No taxation without a nation

Multiple Choice

Review: What was the name of the conflict between British soldiers and colonists in Boston in 1770?

• Rumble in Beantown

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Brawl

• Boston Red Sox

​Revolutionary Tea

There was an old lady lived over the sea

And she was an island queen.

Her daughter lived off in a new country

With an ocean of water between

The old lady’s pockets were full of gold

But never contented was she,

So she called on her daughter to pay her a tax

Of three pence a pound on her tea,

Of three pence a pound on her tea.

Open Ended

Analysis: How does this poem describe the relationship between Britain and the North American colonies?

(Possible Sentence Starter: According to the poem, the relationship between Britain and the colonies was . . . )

​Boston Tea Party ​

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In 1773, colonists in Boston threw crates of tea into the ocean as an act of protest against the King of England

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​Intolerable Acts​

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British laws passed after the Boston Tea Party to punish the colonists 

​American colonists refused to buy goods from Britain because of the Townshend taxes. The Townshend Acts were a series of taxes on British goods, such as tea. Tea was the most popular drink in the North American colonies. As British merchants lost more and more money because of the success of the colonial boycotts, Britain eventually gave in. They removed all of the Townshend taxes except the tax on tea. By keeping the tax on tea, Britain was telling the colonists that they still had the right to place taxes on goods shipped to America. American colonial leaders were not satisfied. They believed that laws should not be made without their approval. In other words, they felt that Britain had no right to pass laws, especially tax laws, since they had no representation in Parliament.

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Open Ended

According to the text, why was there tension between Britain and the colonies over tea?

On December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams, a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty, organized a group of men to take action. They disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and boarded the Dartmouth. They worked through the night with axes smashing 342 crates of tea and dumped them into Boston harbor. The Sons of Liberty, although they dressed as Indians, wanted everyone to know that they were responsible for dumping the tea in the harbor. The disguises were worn just to make sure that the British authorities in Boston would not be able to identify individuals and arrest them for destroying the tea. The British were furious! In 1774, Parliament passed more laws to punish Boston. Colonists called these acts “intolerable” and called on all the colonies to organize against British rule.

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Open Ended

According to the text, how did the colonists respond to the tax on tea? How did Britain respond to their actions?