WHAT IS ONE FOOD YOU EAT EVERY DAY

THAT YOU COULD NOT DO WITHOUT ?

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU NOW COULD
NOT AFFORD THIS FOOD? IS THERE A FOOD
YOU COULD SUBSTITUTE FOR IT?

THE TEA ACT

Journal 15
11.24.14

1763-Treaty of Paris Ends the French & Indian War

1763-Proclamation prohibits settlement West
1764-Sugar Act is hard on the New England Colony

1765-Stamp Act effects all colonists

March 5, 1765 Boston Massacre
1766-Stamp Act Repealed
Declaratory Act: Parliament had the right to make decisions
for the British colonies in all cases whatsoever
1767-Townsend Acts taxed all imported good: tea, glass,
paper
1768: British troops arrive in Boston to maintain
1770: Paul Revere prints The Bloody Massacre
perpetuated in King Street, Boston on March 5th, 1770

TOWNSHEND ACTS
Laws that applied taxes only to imported
goods, with the tax being paid at the port of
entry.
Taxed glass, tea, paper and lead.
The colonists had to import these because
they did not produce them.

TEA ACT OF 1773

Passed to save the East India Company. It
gave the company the right to ship tea to the
colonies without paying the taxes colonial tea
merchants had to pay.

CULTURE OF TEA IN
AMERICA
TeaDrank with Breakfast
Afternoon Tea & High Tea
Found excuses to drink tea
Bread Shopswhile bread was rising breaks were taken to
drink tea
Tea served at parties

Imported

BOYCOTT
In effort to defy the tea act altogether ALL tea was boycotted within the
colonies
Needed a drink to substitute:

I believe I forgot to tell you one Anecdote: When I first came to this House it
was late in the Afternoon, and I had ridden 35 miles at least. Madam said I
to Mrs. Huston, is it lawfull for a weary Traveller to refresh himself with a
Dish of Tea provided it has been honestly smuggled, or paid no Duties?
No sir, said she, we have renounced all Tea in this Place. I cant make Tea,
but Ile make you Coffee. Accordingly I have drank Coffee every Afternoon
since, and have borne it very well. Tea must be universally renounced. I
must be weaned, and the sooner, the better.

John Adams to Abigail Adams

BOYCOTT
Tea Coffee
Rum Whiskey
Revolution not only changed us politically but
culturally

1773-BOSTON TEA PARTY

Sons of Liberty
Dressed up as Indians and
ransacked the three ships
(Beaver, Darthmouth,
Eleanor)
Unloaded 340 chests of
British East India Company
Tea, weighing over 92,000
pounds (roughly 46 tons) in
to the BOSTON HARBOR
Crowds of people watched
in silence.

1773-BOSTON TEA PARTY

In about three hours from the time we went on
board, we had thus broken and thrown
overboard every tea chest to be found in the
ship, while those in the other ships were
disposing of the tea in the same way, at the
same time. We were surrounded by British
armed ships, but no attempt was made to
resist us.
--George Hewes

COERCIVE/INTOLERABLE
ACTS (1774)
Closed Boston Harbor until Massachusetts colonist paid
for the ruined tea. This action prevented the arrival of food
and supplies that normally came by ship.

Massachusetts charter canceled

Royal officials accused of crimes in colonies sent back to
England for trial

Quartering Act- colonist forced to house and supply British

soldiers

General Thomas Gage put in as governor

MERCY OTIS WARREN

Colonial play writer who protested British policies
by writing plays that made fun of British soldiers and
politicians as well as loyalists in the colonies known
as Tories.
Soldiers were called lobster backs

A Tory in one of her plays was called Hum Humbug