Tea In Early America

“The die is now cast. The colonies must either submit or triumph.” ~King George III The Tea Act, sometimes known as the Boston Tea Party, has a lot to say about tea. It is referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston." The night, December thirteen seventeen seventy three. Colonists disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians. Seventeen Million Pounds of unsold tea was dumped mid day. With the colonists throwing over the tea off the ships, King George decided to punish the Bostonians.

The Tea that reach America from china inspired new addictions, new trade connections and new forms of luxury, new social critiques and simmering provincial inferiority. Many caffeinated drinks had come before the tea however this was a new drink to the English-speaking world. Nevertheless, this drink did not come without its own problems (50).

The Tea act was extended by the British Parliament in 1773 to reduce the tax on tea shipped to the dependencies. The Act was one of many measures imposed on the American colonists by the British regime. The Act imposed a tax on tea imported to the colonies by a company that Great Britain had set up for that role. That society owned the sole right to import tea to the settlements, so almost all tea consumed by colonists would be taxed. They were so furious that they boycotted tea altogether.

Ten years later after the Proclamation of 1763 there was a tax put on tea in Boston,Massachusetts.Tea was a very popular

Saberi, H. (2010). Tea Comes to the West. In Tea:A Global History. [Adobe Digital Editions Version]. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/

In the late sixteenth- century Europe adopted a caffeinated warm drink for the first time this included chocolate, tea and coffee. Tea fills the senses with a bittersweet scent. This herb came from china by ship. Unlike cider and beer tea was new to the English-speaking world (49). Starting in the eighteenth- century Europe trading companies began to market green and black tea (51). Before this time period tea was very rare in the west region of British north America. Only the wealthy could originally afford tea and sugar. Tea was also used as a source of herbal medicine rather than traditional methods. This herb was also expensive because it shipped across great distances and allowed the East India Company to charge higher prices and labor added an extra charge. This resulted in tea becoming a luxury item in the colonies (53). The Townshend’s act in 1767 put a tax on tea which Americans responded that parliament could not tax without their consent. This frustrated the colonist because it put their love for tea at risk, so they responded to parliament by aiming at British merchants and manufactures

There are a lot of events that led up to the American Revolution, one of them was the Tea Act. As a way to earn money, the British decided to tax the colonists’ tea. (Document 3) In response to this outrageous situation, the colonists dressed up as Indians, snuck onto their ships, and dumped chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. (Document 4) This act

Tea became a mainstream drink in Asia around 100 BCE. It then became a mainstream drink in Europe around 1610 CE.

During the late 1700s, the East India Company had a monopoly on all of the tea in the colonies. Tea was everything

In 1773, Parliament aroused the Americans by passage of the Tea Act. This act, designed to help the East India Company by making it cheaper for them to sell tea in America, was interpreted by Americans as a subtle ploy to get them to consume taxed tea. In Boston, in December 1773, a group of men dumped the tea into the harbor.

The only option for the colonist if they wanted to drink tea was to buy from the East India Company or not drink any tea at all. The colonists and a group named

The colonist merchants were no longer able to sell tea, thus they were unable to make money. With this new act, The British East India Company could sell the tea for a lot cheaper than the stolen tea from Holland. Whenever ships arrived with cargo of tea, the colonists said they would not unload it and sometimes even sent the ships back. The colonists and the Sons of Liberty were becoming angrier with the British Parliament and some even took it so far as to throw the tea off the three arriving ships. On December 16, 1773, hundreds of men dressed as Mohawks Indians dumped hundreds of crates of tea off three tea ships.(Stein 19) The Boston Tea Party did not only affect the United States but also Great Britain. This country would not be the United States of America if the people involved were not alive, and the Boston Tea Party did not take

It all started when the only place that could legally sell tea to the colonies was East India. The colonists could either choose to sell tea that the British most likely sold because they have made the colonists pay so many other taxes, or they could choose to buy the tea that East India sold that was expensive but didn’t have any tax. The colonists were not happy about this. So on December 16 the colonists got up in the middle of the night and boarded gigantic boats, put on black masks, and put tea chests inside the boat. They sailed the boats into the Boston Harbor.

One of the largest points that the author makes is the significance of tea to the people in the colonies. While there were many who thought that tea was evil and caused health issues, the overwhelming majority of colonist were obsessed. Tea was something new and seen as a luxury item. It took a six-month voyage for the EIC to bring to the precious leaves to Boston. Once there, it was auctioned to those who could afford it. While the bourgeoisie sipped their tea and

Attention getter: In the East tea has always been looked at as playing a major role in having good health, happiness, and wisdom, and it has now begun to gain more attention from researchers here in the West.