Boston Tea Party Comic Strip
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- Tax the colonists for the war, since we did this for them!
- all these boxes are full paper so pay up kid
- come on really I hate this tax!
- no leave and take away the taxes
- just back go your homes and everything will be normal.
- In the 1760s, Britain was deep in debt, so Parliament imposed a series oftaxes on American colonists to help pay those debts
- Sam Adams: all the colonies should be united in their resistance to Parliaments efforts to vend the tea in America
- The Stamp Act of 1765 taxed colonists on everything involved with paper, then the Townshend acts of 1767 went further and taxed paint, paper, glass, land and tea
- throw all the tea off lads were just after the tea
- in March 5 of 1770 the Boston massacre it was a street brawl between British soldiers and American colonist
- just push the Boston port act to close off the port
- in May of 1773 the Tea act was imposed and then The Sons of Liberty was formed which is a group that rebels against taxation
- After a meeting with 5000 men that night members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Native Americans and boarded the ships and throw 342 chest full of tea into the harbor
- The Intolerable acts passed which were punitive laws passed by British Parliament to punish the bostonains for the tea party
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