Nolandia Tea Tax Analysis

Sunday of April 7th, 1765, a group of Rhode Island men boarded the Polly and took down the ship of its cargo carrying barrels of molasses from the sugar islands. This happened eight years before the Boston Tea Party, but the problem was the same. The British Parliament placed a tax on the sugar without letting the colonists have a chance to talk it over. This made the Americans enraged. The Americans needed to resist the tax, or they are just slaves to the British. Americans believed they had the right with what they built with their own strength, knowledge and will. They knew they had to obey laws, but only if they had a say in the making of the laws. The Americans would’ve resisted any tax the British put on them but when they taxed sugar,

This made the Colonists look at the Tea Act as another taxation without representation situation. It meant they could not buy tea from anyone else and so their tea would lose

At the Edenton Tea Party fifty-one women gathered protesting, boycotting British goods, anticipating they could impact a change, by writing a proclamation and each signing it as a declaration and send to London, so that the British change their views on taxing tea. The purpose was for all citizens of England to read at time, and have a change at heart, they never indented to be harsh. ‘’ We do therefore accordingly subscribe this paper, as a witness of our fixed intention and solemn determination to do so. ‘’

“No taxation without representation” is being chanted through the colonies as of late, the Parliament of Great Britain has fed more fuel to the fire of the colonists, The Stamp acts have been introduced and many colonists do not agree.

We the people of the United States colonies requested you revoke these unfair and damaging taxes, and we will do what we want when we an to do it. We deserve respect and that's what we will get!

And we believe no good reason can be given why the colonies should not modestly and soberly inquire what right the Parliament of Great Britain have to tax them” (Hopkins). Once the Americans saw that they were not getting anywhere they started protest groups. Out of the protest groups became the Sons of Liberty. They came up with a way to stop the Tea Act. Many of the Sons of Liberty covered their faces to

The American colonists did the right thing by dumping the tea overboard due to the British taxing the tea. All they wanted was freedom, and this was an act of freedom to the colonists. Also, the colonists didn’t have the money to pay for all the taxed goods. Lastly, they were very polite to the British before and during the Boston Tea Party. The colonists of America did nothing wrong.

What made the taxations so unfair in the eyes of the colonists, was the fact that they had no representation in the parliament and no one was looking after their interests when the laws were being passed in England. The colonists felt left out, their own country was treating them as if they were foreigners and using them to improve the economy of mainland Britain at the expense of their own. Rebellions continued and independence talks began. "No taxation without representation!" Was a common phrase that echoed around the colonies.

The decision of British ruler to tax the colonists was not a decision that the settlers approved and they demonstrate it in many occasions. Starting in 1764 with the sugar act, where products like coffee, tea, sugar wine were taxed, all through the stamp act and many others the British reign reaches its culmination with the tea act which was a last attempt by the parliament to assert its supremacy over the colonists. The tea act was an attempt by the English parliament to save the India Company from bankruptcy. They gave them the right to sell tea directly to the Americans and they reduced some duties. A move that the parliament thought to be winning and flawless was in fact one of the triggering reasons of the revolution. In fact, as the tax

After nearly a year of protests, the Sons of Liberty were finally victorious in March of 1766 when Parliament decided to repeal the Stamp Act,but later the British put a tax on tea.The controversy over the tea tax was made worse by the passing of the Tea Act of 1773, which allowed for tea sold by British companies to be shipped directly to the colonies and sold at a discount. As the tax on tea was still in place, this act was a subtle way to persuade colonists to comply with the tax.The colonists were not pleased.

To the colonists, the further taxation was offensive. They had cleared acres of land, fought off Native Americans, and watched as their relatives die in the process of building a colony that enhanced the British Empire. For hundreds of years in British history, Parliament followed the tradition of receiving permission for levying taxes. Even though the king had these “divine rights” and so forth, when the British Parliament taxed the colonists without their consent, the colonists’ traditional rights were

Now Great Britain has placed a tax on sugar. That is not the only thing they placed a tax on. Would you make people pay taxes on papered goods? The British made them pay taxes on paper goods. The Stamp Act places taxes on newspapers, licenses, and colonial paper products. If you went against the taxes and not pay them, you were in a heap of trouble. You could be hung, or took to jail, and could be sentenced for life. The colonist got tired of taxes, and eventually did something about it. They got a hold of the Sons of Liberty, and they caught one of the tax collectors. They tarred and feathered him. He eventually died, because the tar pulled of his skin. He died because his skin got infected. How would you like it if someone passed a law the basically said that they were in control and there is nothing you can do about it. The Declaratory Act which stated that parliament had the power to make laws for the colonies. This act worried the colonist, because it took away most of their independence. They also felt like they were not capable of making their own laws. They wanted to be free. They wanted to make their own laws. The British were making that hard for them to do. Now, there is another taxing act placed. Did you like taxes on paper goods, and sugar? Now I have another treat for you. Now they placed an act that taxed glass, lead, and paint. What else are they

The colonists believed they had a right to be represented in Parliament before being taxed or at least vote for the taxing officials. The phrase “no taxation without representation” began to become popular within the colonies.

The 1773 Tea Act did cause the American Revolution in that it sparked huge opposition amongst the colonists. It was the third time that the British had tried to tax the Americans — both the 1765 Stamp Act and the 1767 Townshend Duties had been repealed due to such opposition. The Tea Act was the final straw for many colonists — the Sons of Liberty organised a huge protest in which they boarded the ships carrying the East India Company’s tea, and threw £10,000 worth of tea into the sea in defiance. This was known as the Boston Tea Party and demonstrated to the British that the Americans were not willing to accept British taxation. The slogan ‘no taxation without representation’ was frequently used, showing how the Americans felt the British, in trying to tax them, were attempting to impose a tyrannical rule. The Boston Tea Party provoked outrage in Britain, with many of the politically conscious calling for the Americans to be punished. This then led to the Coercive Acts in 1774, which aimed at isolating Boston — although it only resulted in increasing the tension between the

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