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The Boston Tea Party
Cause and Effect Essay # 97472
The Boston Tea Party
An analysis of the events leading up to the most famous act of American rebellion, the Boston Tea Party.
1,540 words (approx. 6.2 pages) |
5 sources |
MLA | 2005
Paper Summary:
This paper reviews the events and policies which led the American colonists to cast off the leash of England and fight for autonomy. The paper analyzes England's logic and purpose behind the Stamp Act, Townshend Act and Quartering Act. It also discusses the effects of the Seven Years War, Boston Massacre and monopoly of the East India Trading Company on the reasoning of the Americans. Finally, it describes how all of these events led up to the Boston Tea Party.From the Paper:
"Hoping to starve Boston into submission was yet another mistake Britain made. It only united the Colonies more in their fight against the Crown, the other major cities sent supplies to Boston so it could out last the act. England brought the Revolution upon itself, the King and Parliament made poor decisions when it came to the Colonies. England thought that they could force the Colonies into union; they did not recognize that the more they tried to unite, the more the Colonists resisted.""The Boston Tea Party was indeed the first Act of Revolution in the war, James Stokesbury says, "In fact it [The Boston Tea Party] was the chief turning point in the progression toward revolution (34)." I would say it was also the point of no return, because after such a dramatic work of rebellion the Americans could not crawl back, they had to continue on that path. The tea party set the tone of how the war would be fought and won."
Chosen as a "Paper of the Week":
December 16, 1773 is the date of what is most likely the most famous tea party of all – the Boston Tea Party. In spite of its fame, not all the reasons, causes and consequences of this famous event in American history are well-known. Paper #97472, "The Boston Tea Party" addresses just these issues and is also this week's paper of the week. Citing numerous sources, this seven-page cause and effect essay describes and analyzes the events leading up to the Boston Tea Party and the consequences of those events. After a careful explication of all that transpired, the paper then concludes that the Boston Tea Party was indeed the first act of revolution in the US Revolutionary War as well as the point of no return in the fight for freedom for the colonies.
Sample of Sources Used:
- Bliven, Bruce, Jr. The American Revolution 1760-1783. New York: Random House, 1958.
- Fleming, Thomas. Liberty! The American Revolution. New York: Viking Penguin, 1997.
- Marrin, Albert. The War for Independence. New York: Atheneum, 1988.
- Miller, John C. Origins of the American Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943.
- Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of the American Revolution. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991.
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The Boston Tea Party (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 11, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Cause-and-Effect-Essay-The-Boston-Tea-Party/97472
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"The Boston Tea Party" 15 January 2012. Web. 11 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Cause-and-Effect-Essay-The-Boston-Tea-Party/97472>
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