Boston Tea Party Information

1. The
Boston Tea Party
and Intolerable Acts
1773
What was Boston Tea Party?
How was the Tea Party significant
to the American Revolution?
*After the Stamp Act, Quartering Act, and
Boston Massacre, many taxes that
colonists were paying were REPEALED (this
means taken back). However, the
tax on tea imported from England was still
enforced.

2. For years,
colonists
avoided
British tea tax
by smuggling
in Dutch tea
through the
Caribbean.

3. In 1773, British Parliament
passed the Tea Act. They
allowed the East India
Company of Britain to sell tea
in the colonies at an
extremely low price.

4. The Tea Act made British tea
(with the tax) less expensive
than the smuggled tea from
the Caribbean.
Taxed tea sold
by East India Company
$
(Answer Question 1,2)
Smuggled tea
from the Caribbean
$

5. I know the British tea is
cheaper than the tea
from the Caribbean.
But I refuse to give
any of my money to
King George or
British Parliament!
Colonists still boycotted the British
Answer
question 3!
tea, even though it actually cost less.

6. Ships filled with tea
from England sat in Boston
Harbor.
Merchants refused to sell
the tea, so there was no
place to unload it from the
boats.

7. On December 16, 1773, dozens of Sons of Liberty
(Rebels!) boarded the ships illegally.

8. They were disguised as
Native Americans.

9. They destroyed the tea by
throwing it into the harbor.

10. This event became known as
Answer Question 4
The Boston Tea Party

11. British Parliament
punished the
colonists
for the Tea Party.

12. QUESTION 5
Closed Boston Harbor and
stopped all trade between
Boston and Britain
Sent more soldiers to Boston and
enforced the Quartering Act
Punishment for
the colonies:
Made it illegal for Massachusetts to have
town meetings. The government of
Massachusetts was controlled by the
English appointed governor.

13. The colonists
responded to the
Intolerable Acts
(Coercive Acts) by
gathering for the
First
Continental Congress.

14. The First Continental Congress
Colonists sent delegates to Philadelphia for
the First Continental Congress:
(ANSWER QUESTION 7)
• Delegates wrote a letter to King George
• Said colonists should have the same rights
as other British citizens
• Asked parliament and King George to stop
taxing the colonies without representation
in parliament
• Asked to repeal the Intolerable Acts

15. THIS INFORMATION GOES WITH QUESTION 8!
Colonists begin training
for battle in case
of war with
Britain
King George
plans to send
more soldiers.
He declared that
the colonists had
begun a rebellion.