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The Boston Tea Party Point of Views.
Manada Singh
HIUS 221-B09
06/23/2019
Throughout the history, many events have been understood and represented in different
ways. One of this events is “The Boston Tea Party”. Boston tea party was a political protest and
mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts on December 16, 1773 in
defiance of the “Tea Act” on May 10,1773 which allows the British East India Company to sell
tea from China to American Colonies without paying any taxes. The demonstrators, some
disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire ship of tea send by East India Company.
They boarded the ship and throw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor. The British government
responded harshly, and the episode escalated into the American Revolution and “the Boston Tea
Party” become an iconic event of American history. After further researches, it is found that
there is more than one view on this meter, depending on where you stood.
One of the Patriotic views of the Boston Tea Party shows that: After many political
protests from the Sons of Liberty, the government of that time were still not giving up on the tea
