Tea Act Dbq

The event I researched is, Tea Act. It happened on, May 10, 1773. This topic talks about that the Tea had to be sent directly to the colonies and that there they had to sell it to a good price. The event was about, because they did not have how to increase the income in the American colonies. As a result of this event, It turned out that the colonies of Philadelphia and New York returned the tea boats to Great Britain, And in Charleston the load of Tea was rotting on the docks.

British imperial policies between 1763 and 1776 intensified colonials' resistance to British rule and their commitment to Republican values. New imperial policies led to a strong displeasure of the British by colonists who had become accustomed to a self-governed life. These new taxes and constraints on colonial life enhanced Republican values in the minds of colonists; something that eventually caused the colonies to separate from the British monarchy. In 1764, the British passed the Sugar Act, lowering the tax on molasses, but adding taxes on other items such as sugar, an act which Lord Grenville assured would be strictly enforced.

So with that according to the website landofthebrave.info says, “the colonists were the economic impact as well as the constitutional issue of taxation without representation. The colonists were undergoing a period of financial difficulties and their resentment was due to both the economic impact of the Sugar Act as well as the constitutional issue of taxation without

After the French and Indian War, the British set out to reform the relationship with the new colonies, (Shultz,n.d.). They issued a number of tax acts on the colonists to raise money. These acts were met with great opposition from the colonists, as they felt it was interfering with the liberties they had fought so hard for. Acts such as the Sugar Act, the Quartering Act, and the Stamp caused the colonists great frustration and this lead to rebellion toward the Crown. The Sugar Act would lower the taxes sugar and molasses, but much to the dismay of the colonists Europe had increased its enforcement of these taxes, (Shultz,n.d.).

The Sugar Interest wanted to be positive the colonists were not buying anyone else ’s rum except for English rum, so the Act places customs duties on non-British sugar and prohibited any rum that was not British. Most colonists actually did not mind this and thought it was constitutional, except for Boston who grew to be quite angry especially since smugglers had a harder time of making a living now. Next, comes the Stamp Act, which was a miniscule tax on just about everything made of paper. Some colonies already had their own type of Stamp Act imposed, so the extra tax made most colonists very angry especially because it was an internal tax; therefore, it is unconstitutional.

The Prime Minister George Grenville created the Sugar Act of 1764. This act placed a tax on sugar while lowering the tax on molasses. The colonists grew livid. The colonists believed that this tax was paying for the problems in Britain and not in the colonies, so they believed it was unfair of them to have

The sugar act put taxes on sugar and molasses that was imported into the colonies. This act affected the construction of rum in New England. The Sugar act was unfair to the colonists because The second thing that made the Second Continental Congress want to break from Great Britain were all the Acts, specifically the intolerable acts. The intolerable were a set of acts set in place in order to punish those who had taken part of the Boston Tea Party. One of the intolerable acts was the Quebec Act.

These actions took away a lot of rights of the colonists in Boston. This resulted in Boston colonials to start spreading the word that “If Britain can do this to Boston today, other colonies could be the next tomorrow.” With this mentality, the colonists began to organize small revolts that would eventually lead up to the American revolution. Because of the actions of the colonists, the British government's attitude on the event of the Boston tea party was that someone must pay. Because of the buildup and animosity that the Greenville acts gained from the colonists, it was easy to see why the colonists displayed so much distaste for the other tax acts that followed to Greenville and tea acts.

For instance, according to documents two and 10, the Stamp Act was the first tax inflicted upon them and it angered them greatly. The Stamp Act was a tax that required colonists to purchase stamps when they bought paper products, such as newspapers. Newspapers were very significant in the colonies because it allowed them to communicate across great distances and express their opinions. This tax enraged the colonists because they had no representation in parliament and had not voted for the tax, in addition to the taxed goods being among the highest in demand. Secondly, the Townshend Acts also inconvenienced the colonists.

The colonists thought that there was a profit to be made from the Ohio River Valley. Pontiac’s Rebellion and the Proclamation of 1763 lead to the Sugar Act of 1764. Do you like sugar? What would you do if someone put a tax on that sugar? The colonists felt angry about the tax on the thing the use a lot.

The colonist started thinking they had no repression in parliament. The commits of correspondence improved commutation among their colonies. In this disagreement with their mother country England, this lead to taxation without repreasation. The British didn’t think that the sugar act wasn’t bringing in enough money for them. Their solution to that problem is creating another act that the colonist has to pay tax on.

In my opinion, the Intolerable Acts, also known as the “Coercive Acts”, caused the most unrest in the colonies and led to the American Revolution. The Intolerable Acts were started in 1774 after the outcome of the Boston Tea Party. This caused numerous uprisings and unwanted outcomes from the British. The “Intolerable Acts” were named this by the Boston colonists, since they felt like they couldn’t put up with the British after everything they had done. First of all, the British closed the port of Boston, which stopped imports and exports coming into the port.

The taxes that the Sugar Act placed made the most money for Britain, more than any of the other taxes did. The colonist were very upset with the Sugar Act because of the way it was enforced. The Sugar Act took away the colonist’s right to a trial by jury when the British set up the Admiralty courts. Admiralty courts were where a judge decides the outcome rather than the colonial courts. The judges would earn 5% of however much the cargo load was worth if they could prove the person accused was guilty.

In result, economic changes would come to the colonies. Parliament met in 1763 and came to the conclusion that they were not receiving the profit they needed from the colonies (Document F). As a result, many taxes were passed by British Parliament upon the colonies, including the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act (Document H) and the Tea Act. The American colonies were not happy, to say the least. Americans protested, saying that these taxes were unnecessary and unfair.

and they too were attacked so they had to fire into the mob. Parliament passed the Tea Act, which gave the British East Indians company a complete monopoly of the American tea business meaning the colonists could only buy tea from this company. The colonists opposed this law even though it lowered the price of tea. They viewed the tea Act as merely another example