The+Boston+Tea+Party

=The Boston Tea Party= After the Boston Massacre trial all of the taxes were repealed, except for one: The Tea Tax. The tax on tea was 3 pennies, or 3 pence, per pound. Each pound of tea was 7 shillings, each shilling was worth 100 pence. One pound of tea was enough to make 100 cups of tea. John Hancock was a rich, short man. He got his money by selling (smuggled) Dutch tea, which tasted better. The British also had a tea company, the British East India Company who sold expensive, not as tasty India tea. The British East India Company was run by King George the third. Summary: The taxes on tea engaged the colonists because tea was "expensive" and the tea sold by the British wasn't as good as the Dutch tea the colonists smuggled.
 * 10/25/11**

Classwork: Picture #1: I see- It means- The Bostonians dressed up as Native Americans and dumped the tea into the harbor. Crowds of people came to watch it all go down. Box after box of tea was thrown into the waters of the harbor, all while the crowd was cheering. Picture #2: I see- It means- The colonists are taking their anger of the British out on a life-sized doll that resembles a British man while the Boston Tea Party occurs directly behind them in the background. Both Pictures: Compare and Contrast- Both pictures have the Boston Tea Party happening one way or another. Both pictures show the colonists' hatred towards the British. However, one picture as crowds of people cheering on the Boston Tea Part while the other has five colonist men were sadistically enjoying themselves with torturing a doll of a British man. Also, the settings in both pictures are different. Answering the Questions for Document- APPARTS Boston Tea Party Document (Filled in): media type="custom" key="11047082" Document #1 on Coercive Acts (Marked up): media type="custom" key="11047248" Two-Column Notes on Coercive Acts (Document #1): media type="custom" key="11047606" Document #2 on Coercive Acts (Marked Up): media type="custom" key="11048078" Two-Column Notes on Coercive Acts (Document #2): media type="custom" key="11048690" Compare and Contrast Documents #'s 1 and 2 about Coercive Acts: Both of the documents had the four main Acts: Boston Port, Massachusetts Bay Regulating, Administration of Justice, and Quartering Act. However, Wikipedia included the Quebec Act in their document while the other document only mentioned it once at the end. Wikipedia got into more details and about the effects of the Acts while the other document had worded its sentences weird and didn't go into that much detail about each Act.
 * 10/26/11**
 * Two ships
 * A building
 * Two huge crowds of people cheering
 * Native Americans dumping boxes into the waters of the harbor
 * A harbor
 * Hats
 * Grey skies
 * Blue and grey flag
 * Row boats
 * Mountains in the background
 * Water
 * Boxes floating in the water
 * A ship in the background
 * People emptying out large boxes into the water in the background
 * Five colonists surrounding a man
 * A tree the has the phrase, "Liberty Tree" scratch in its bark
 * A noose hanging from one of the branches of the tree
 * A man with a noose around his neck being dragged down by on of the colonists
 * Colonists have a sadistically amused face as they torture the man
 * The man is covered in feathers and is having water forced into his throat by the colonists
 * If you look carefully in the bark of the tree it says, "Stamp Act" in upside down handwriting/scratched into the tree
 * 1) The meeting was convened so that they could discuss what actions/measures should be taken so that the tea never make it off the ship.
 * 2) I believe the commander requested that no damage be made on the ship because since the tea company was failing, they couldn't easily buy more ships.
 * 3) The duty that the "Indians" are doing is standing up to Britain and showing them that they will not just sit about and let them control them. They'll rise up against Britain in the name of the colonists in America and fight for what they deserve.
 * 4) The significance for the colonists to dress up as the Natives is to protect their identities and (Maybe, I'm not sure about this other part) to show that they are from America and won't let invaders from another country try to control them. Also to trick the British into thinking that the Natives did it, not the colonists.
 * 5) What made the Boston Tea Part different from the other forms of colonial protest is that it was more organized and not that much damage was actually made. Also, the British didn't try to stop them as they dumped the tea into the harbor.