How did the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party lead to the American Revolution?
The Boston Tea Party was an act of direct action by the American colonists against Great Britain in which they destroyed many crates of tea bricks on ships in Boston Harbor. The incident, which took place on Thursday, December 16, 1773, has been seen as helping to spark the america revolution. On Thursday, December 16, 1773, the evening before the tea was due to be landed, Captain Rotch appealed to Governor Hutchinson to allow his ship to leave without unloading its tea. When Roach returned and reported Hutchinson’s refusal to a massive protest meeting, Samuel Adams said to the assembly “This meeting can do nothing more to save the country”. As though on cue, the Sons of Liberty thinly disguised as Narragansett Indians and armed with small hatchets and clubs, headed toward Griffin’s Wharf, where lay Dartmouth and the newly arrived Beaver and Eleanour. Swiftly and efficiently, casks of tea were brought up from the hold to the deck, reasonable proof that some of the “Indians” were, in fa
The Boston Massacre was one of the events that triggered the rebellion of America. It wasn’t actually a “massacre” but 5 colonists including the first “patriot” Cris pus Attackis, an African American slave who’d been set free by his owner. Sam Adams exaggerated this alot to keep tensions rising and get the colonists ready to fight. The Boston Tea Party on the other hand, may have been a trigger for the Revolution. Some colonists dressed up as Indians and boarded a boat carrying 342 chests of tea and dumped all of it into the Boston Harbor. They did this as a reaction as the Stamp Act which placed taxes on legal documents which all had to contain stamps, tea which was a vulnerable thing to rebel against, and even playing cards! The outrage made 342 crates full of tea remain at the bottom of the Boston harbor. The King of England was infuriated and passed the intolerable acts which made the colonists even more mad. Of course none of these events really led to the Revolution. But they did
