The

Boston Tea Party

and Intolerable Acts

1773

What was Boston Tea Party?

How was the Tea Party significant

to the American Revolution?

*After the Stamp Act, Quartering Act, and Boston Massacre, many taxes that colonists were paying were REPEALED (this means taken back). However, the tax on tea imported from England was still enforced.

For years,

colonists

avoided

British tea tax

by smuggling

in Dutch tea

through the

Caribbean.

In 1773, British Parliament

passed the Tea Act. They

allowed the East India

Company of Britain to sell tea

in the colonies at an

extremely low price.

Taxed tea sold

by East India Company

$

Smuggled tea

from the Caribbean

$

The Tea Act made British tea

(with the tax) less expensive

than the smuggled tea from

the Caribbean.(Answer Question 1,2)

I know the British tea is cheaper than the tea from the Caribbean.

But I refuse to give any of my money to

King George or British Parliament!

Colonists still boycotted the British

tea, even though it actually cost less.

Answer question 3!

Ships filled with tea

from England sat in Boston

Harbor.

Merchants refused to sell

the tea, so there was no

place to unload it from the

boats.

On December 16, 1773, dozens of Sons of Liberty

(Rebels!) boarded the ships illegally.

They were disguised as

Native Americans.

They destroyed the tea by

throwing it into the harbor.

This event became known as

The Boston Tea Party

Answer Question 4

British Parliament

punished the

colonists

for the Tea Party.

Closed Boston Harbor and stopped all trade between

Boston and Britain

Sent more soldiers to Boston and enforced the Quartering Act

Made it illegal for Massachusetts to have town meetings. The government of Massachusetts was controlled by the

English appointed governor.

Punishment for

the colonies:

QUESTION 5

The colonists

responded to the

Intolerable Acts

(Coercive Acts) by

gathering for the

First

Continental Congress.

The First Continental Congress

Colonists sent delegates to Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress:(ANSWER QUESTION 7)• Delegates wrote a letter to King George• Said colonists should have the same rights

as other British citizens• Asked parliament and King George to stop

taxing the colonies without representation in parliament

• Asked to repeal the Intolerable Acts

Colonists begin training

for battle in case

of war with

Britain

King George

plans to send

more soldiers.

He declared that

the colonists had

begun a rebellion.

THIS INFORMATION GOES WITH QUESTION 8!