Boston Tea Party Presentation

Slide 12 (Everyone)

(All together) The Boston Tea Party

Slide 1 (Everyone)

(All together) The Boston Tea Party by Matthew, Viridiana, David, and Taylor (everyone says their own name)

Slide 7 (David)

After the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament issued the Coercive Acts. The colonists thought these acts were unjustified, so they called them the Intolerable Acts. These acts included the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, Impartial Administration Act, and the Quartering Act. The Boston Port Act closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea lost in the Boston Tea Party. This political cartoon by Paul Revere shows a British tax collector forcing 'America' to drink tea.

Slide 8 (David)

The Massachusetts Government Act prohibited town meetings and gave more power to royal governors, and took power away from colonists. The Impartial Administration of Justice Act stated that a British official who committed a capital crime had to have a trial in England. The Quartering Act stated that unless there were vacant barracks for British soldiers, the colonists would have to allow them into their homes and give them food.

Slide 3 (Taylor)

The colonists were already protesting, so when the Tea Act was implemented in 1773, this angered them more and drove them closer to the Revolutionary War. A shipment of tea from Great Britain arrived in Boston Harbor, so the British were asked to take it back to England. When this didn't happen, some colonists wore poorly made Mohawk Native American disguises. They boarded the ship on December 16, 1773 and threw all 342 chests of tea into the Boston Bay as an act of retaliation to taxation without representation.

Slide 4 (Taylor)

The purpose of the Boston Tea Party was to protest the Tea Act, which forbade colonists from buying tea from any country other than Britain, and this tea was taxed. The tea that was thrown into the Boston Bay was worth $1,000,000, which England lost since it was destroyed. This made a point to the King and Parliament that the colonists were fed up with the way in which they were being treated.

Slide 10 (Matthew)

These are pictures of Carpenter's Hall, PA. To the left is Carpenter's Hall during the First Continental Congress, and the photo to the right is Carpenter's Hall after renovations in present-day.

Slide 9 (Viridiana)

This event ultimately led to the Revolutionary War by the Boston Tea Party being one of many protests by colonists against Great Britain. These protests, especially the Boston Tea Party, angered the British. The Coercive Acts, known as the Intolerable Acts to colonists, were created soon after the Boston Tea Party to put the colonies back in their place. These acts, however, only added fuel to the fire and made colonies join together in sympathy and stand in favor of independence. Almost all the colonies noticed they were treated unfairly by the British. The most notable example of the colonists banding together is the first Continental Congress, which was held on September 5, 1774 in Carpenter's Hall, PA. Fifty-six deputies represented all the colonies except Georgia.

Slide 6 (Matthew)

This is a picture of a Mohawk child who's culture the colonists crudely embodied.

Slide 2 (Viridiana)

This is a political cartoon that shows a colonist looking at a flyer announcing the new Tea Act. A British soldier is standing nearby. It reads "Nothing was thought of but this taxation and the easiest method of liquidation. T-A-X 'twas enough to vex the souls of the men of Boston town to read this under the seal of the crown. They were loyal subjects of George III so they believed and so they averred but this bristling, defensive placard set on the walls, was worse than a bayonet.

Slide 11 (Matthew)

This is the original Bill of Rights drafted and adopted after the Second Continental Congress

Slide 5 (Matthew)

Those directly responsible for this event were Boston colonists looking for a way to retaliate against the British and their taxes. Their disguises were based on those of Mohawk Native Americans, but were terribly inaccurate because most of the disguises consisted of face paint and feathered headwear. Other colonists looked on along the port as those involved destroyed the chests of tea on the ships.