The Boston

Tea Party

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Background

——3 years after the Boston Massacre

——The controversy kept deepening

——The foundation of Committees of Correspondence（通信委员会）

OverviewThe Boston Tea Party

Background

——In 1770, the Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties, except that on tea.——Tea from the East India Company was unsalable. it came to the brink of bankruptcy.——The Parliament passed the Tea Act to save the company.

3 years after the Boston Massacre

The Boston Tea Party

Background

——Burning the customs schooner, Gaspee

——The taxes still were heavy and intolerant loads on colonials’ shoulder.

——The dump(倾销 )of taxed tea endangered the colonials.

Deepening controversyThe Boston Tea Party

Background

——3 years after the Boston Massacre

——The controversy kept deepening

——The foundation of Committees of Correspondence（通信委员会）

OverviewThe Boston Tea Party

Background

——Leaders: Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson

——Designed to exchange information and to coordinate measures to defend colonial right——The Leader of the Boston Tea Party

Committees of CorrespondenceThe Boston Tea Party

BackgroundAgainst the dump of tea and for the

rights of colonials

Committees of Correspondence took a lead

The Boston Tea party

SummaryThe Boston Tea Party

Course of Event

The courseThe Boston Tea Party

Consequence

——the four Intolerant Act(Coercive Acts(强制法案 ), Massachusetts Government Act, Impartial Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act(驻军法案 )) and the Quebec Act——There is no way to harmonize the Parliament and the colonials

——It directly led to War of Independence

The resultThe Boston Tea Party

The TEA Party

The TEA Party never diesThe Boston Tea Party

The end

The Boston Tea Party