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The Boston Tea Party
was a statement against over taxation. It announced to America's
then king, the King of England, that they were over-taxed and would
not accept it any longer. |
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Above is the
1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier entitled
"The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor". |
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The Boston Tea Party was an
overt action by Boston colonists.
Boston was then a town in the British colony of Massachusetts.
These soon-to-be free Americans were rebelling against the British
government's free-wheeling, excessive taxes. |
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The Event: |
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On December 16, 1773,
Americans demanded that British officials
in Boston send back to Britain three shiploads of over-taxed
tea. British officials refused. A group
of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea
by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident
was a watershed event
in American history. |
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The Tea Party was the culmination of
a resistance movement throughout Britain's American
colonies resisting
over taxation and taxation without representation. |
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Today's Tea Party: |
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In today's America, Americans are
rebelling against their own elected government's excessive taxation
and the seemingly unending and unlimited taxation and usurpation of
individual rights by our elected
officials in Congress -- as well as by the president. |
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Americans understand that their elected
officials are forcing legislation upon them that they do not want
and legislation that is bankrupting America. |