Taxation without representation

One of the major causes of the American Revolution was that the Colonists did not have representation in parliament. This happens during the 1750's and the 1760's in Britain. There major slogan was ''no taxation without representation'' in other words, if no one represents them in the parliament, they would not pay taxes. During this time, there were 13 colonies. From 20 British citizens only one of them had representation in the parliament, but any of them belong to the 13 colonies.

After king George III taked throne of Britain in 1760. They start implying new laws including the Stamp Act, this was know as a British good. This allowed the british to put taxes in the newspaper, legal documents, dice and even the almanacas. Of course this were not benefical to the Americans. And this money that was earned from all this taxes was not giong to the colonies, it was back their mother land. Because these new acts and laws were only in benefical to the King.

The people that lived in the 13 colonist were in a big conflict, because they didn't have no one who represents them in the British parliament. They didn't even have the opportunity to vote for how will they be represented or taxed. We can said that the British government was total free to tax them in everything they want. They even taxed them in tea. But from all this illegal treatments comes their revolution at the merchants resist.

The Boston Tea Party

BOSTON TEA PARTY

The Boston Tea Party was basically the destruction of British tea. This was a political protest made by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The Tea Party was the end of a resistance movement against the Tea Act. This act, passed by the British parliament in 1773 stated that the colonists should pay taxes for the tea. Obviously, colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that violated their rights. Previously, other acts were passed but were dropped. The only tax left was the one of on tea. Colonists believed they shouldn't pay taxes if they didn't have any representation in the British parliament. They called this "Taxation without representation". 

Colonists wanted to emphasize their point in Avery public way so they conceived a plan. In 17773, the Davidson Newman Company of London sent a ship loaded with tea to the harbor at Boston. A group of colonists disguised themselves as Mohawk warriors. Disguising their individual faces was imperative because of the illegality of their protest. That evening a group of 30 to 130 men some disguised as Mohawk warriors boarded the vessel full of tea. Over the course of three hours, these men dumped in the Boston harbor about 324 chests of tea. 

 

 The help of Samuel Adams in planning the Boston Tea Party is suspected. But he immediately tried to defend this act by saying that the Boston Tea Party was a protest in which the people defended their rights. Samuel Adams tried to say that every government need a constitution, written or not. In February, 1775, Britain passed the Conciliatory Resolution, which ended taxation for any colony. The tax on tea was repealed with the Taxation of Colonies Act 1778. The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution.

The Boston Massacre

The Boston Massacre Washington is  a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770. This fight was between a group of drunk civilians and a squad of British soldiers. This massacre is also called the "Incident on King Street". This group of drunk civilians were throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at the soldiers. The British army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. This event is widely view as a foreshadow of the American Revolutionary War.

Since 1768, the crown sent a group of soldiers to the colonies in order to protect them. There was some bad tension between soldiers and civilians since soldiers had to live in the civilian houses according to the order gave by the king. A group of drunk civilians started to verbal abuse of the British soldiers. One of the soldiers fired them and eventually he was supported by seven additional soldiers. All of them were victims of verbal abuse and objects were thrown onto them. Even though the soldiers were not ordered to fired, they did it. All of these soldiers were arrested and charged of murdered.

John Adams was the lawyer and defender of the soldiers that were charged of murdered. Six of the soldiers were acquitted, while two others were convicted of manslaughter and given reduce sentence. The sentence that these two men received was a branding on their hand. This massacre is mostly remembered because of the death of Crispus Attucks, an African man. The death of this man was the best opportunity to demonstrate the role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War. In 1888, a monument was done on the Boston Common in honor of the men killed on that massacre. 

About us

Here we have our U.S History project. We have to create a blog about the American Revolution and events that happen. We are a group of students two girls and a boy so if you see a girly blog you will know the reason why. We live at Tegucigalpa Honduras, and we are 10th graders students.
We have learn about the American history since little so we are very familiar with its history.

To understand more of our group we will talk about our characteristics we will use nicknames to cover our indentity.

-Andrew Martinez: Hi Im a 15 years old teenager that study at a preveleged school in Tegucigalpa.
My interests of my life is to be a sistem engineer and study computer science at the University of Toronto Canada or the NY university of the USA. I am a good painter and musician, I play videogames almost every day for entretain my self. I like to make friends and i hope you like our blog.

ShilaCabrera: Hi I'm 16 years old , first of all i used this name bacuse me englsih teacher always use it for giving examples so was the first to come to my mind. As we said before we are in 10th grade. I live in Tegucigalpa since like 7 months ago, i used to live in SPS . I like to play soccer and also to paint since little. when i grow up i will like to become a designer . Fashion is my passion. I love school and i have to said my favorite teacher is my us history teacher. I LOVE YOU MRS.
Hope you like our blog and be free to live comments.Nice comments!

Catica: HI! I'm a 15 years old. I recently moved from Choluteca. One of my favorite classes is U.S. History.
My favorite sport is soccer i also love to paint and draw. When i grow up i want to be a architect hope you like our blog. Love you all! Call me Maybe ;)