Who Was More To Blame For Worsening Relations: Boston Tea Party

Question 1

What new government came into power and what did he do ?

Answer 1

A new government under Lord North came into power in 1770
- replaced Hillsborough with Earl of Dartmouth and repealed all Townsend duties bar tea
- did this to show the supremacy of parliament

Question 2

How were the Townsend duties a cause ?

Answer 2

January 1766 Gov implemented the unpopular Townsend duties
- was widely unpopular and meant a loss of freedom and heavy taxes
- the duties were repealed apart from the duty on tax

Question 3

How was the Boston massacre a cause ?

Answer 3

• heightened tension due to the killing of 5 citizens
• the people of Boston were empowered by their solidarity and angered by the actions of the royal army

Question 4

What and when was the Tea Tax ?
1. When
2. Why
3. What is continued to be payed

Answer 4

• 1773
• allowed East Indian Tea Company (facing bankruptcy) to export cheap tea directly to the colonies
• the Americans would continue to pay Townsend duties on the tea they sold where as Tea Company would forgo the usual import/ export duties

Question 5

Why did the Tea act cause anger ?

Answer 5

• it allowed for the East Indian Tea company to sell tea cheaper than local tea growers
• threatened colonial merchants selling other tea from the Dutch Caribbean
• the same merchants acted as retailers and middlemen for the East India area purchased through Britain possibly putting merchants entirely out of business

Question 6

How was the Tea Tax received ?

Answer 6

Poorly
North had miscarried and misread the situation
- Americans protested agaisnt taxation without representation
- attacked in the newspapers and violence threatened those who imported East Indian Tea and many resigned out of intimidation

Question 7

What are the events of the Boston tea party ?
1. When +DEB
2. Who and what

Answer 7

Late November 1773
- three ships( Dartmouth, Eleanor and the Beaver) carrying East India Tea
- December 16 a group of 60 sons of liberty men disguised as native Americans boarded the ships dumping 342 chest of tea worth $1.7 million approx today
- navy did not respond out of fear force would make the situation worse

Question 8

How did government react ?

Answer 8

Passed a series of laws know as the intolerable acts which further increased tension between Britian and American