miércoles, 21 de abril de 2010

The Boston Tea Party


Britain was getting out of money. King GeorgeIII ans Lord Townshend needed to raise money for his government. The government was getting poor and many people were brought into prison because they couldn't pay their debts. King GeorgeIII and Lord Townshend knew the answer to his problem.The colonist were supported with soldiers, supplies and livelihood so they neede to tax them things so they could have money. They taxed glass, lead, paper, paint and tea that were shipped to the colonies.
The colonists were dissatisfied with this new law. So they make a plan to stop using all these materials so the tax was removed. In 1770 their plan worked very good and all the taxes were repealed all except the tea tax.
Colonists started smuggling danish tea but the company of britain tea realize it and removed the danish tea. In 1773, the company of britain tea sent a ship, loaded with britain tea, to the boston harbor. In the night a group of colonists disguised themselves as indians and enter the ships and threw away the tea. When the King and parliament knew about this they got very angry.

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