The reason and impact of Boston Tea Party 波士顿倾茶事件 英语论文.docx

historythe reason and impact of boston tea partyas europeans developed a taste for tea in the 17th century, rival companies were formed to import the product from the east indies. in england, parliament gave the east india company a monopoly on the importation of tea in 1698. when tea became popular in the british colonies, parliament sought to eliminate foreign competition by passing an act in 1721 that required colonists to import their tea only from great britain. the east india company did not export tea to the colonies; by law, the company was required to sell its tea wholesale at auctions in england. british firms bought this tea and exported it to the colonies, where they resold it to merchants in boston, new york, philadelphia, and charleston.until 1767, the east india company paid an ad valorem tax of about 25% on tea that it imported into great britain. parliament laid additional taxes on tea sold for consumption in britain. these high taxes, combined with the fact that tea imported into holland was not taxed by the dutch government, meant that britons and british americans could buy smuggled dutch tea at much cheaper prices. the biggest market for illicit tea was englandby the 1760s the east india company was losing 400,000 per year to smugglers in great britainbut dutch tea was also smuggled into british america in significant quantities. there is a very important event in american history is called boston tea party. there is an event of boston people of north american colonies against the british east india companys monopoly of tea trade was happened in 1773. in 1773, the british government wanted to dumping the accumulation tea of east india company by relief the east india company ordinance. the regulation give the east india company a patent right to the north american colonies that they can sell the backlog tea and they can exempt from the high import tax. they only imposed a little ea tax. the ordinance said that they forbid to selling private tea in colonial. so, the east india company monopoly distribution of tea in north american colonial. their price of tea is cheaper about fifty percent that the private tea. this ordinance caused a lot of people of the north american colonies very angry. people drink the smuggling tea accounted for nine of ten. the people of new york, philadelphia and charleston refused to unload the tea. december 16th, 1773, the boston tea party was broken out which event evoked the north american war of independence. two of the european power countries britain and france, they had been in the competition foe hegemony in europe and the worlds expeditions. in 1763, britain has made the victory in the 7 years of war. the france was forced to give canada to britain and withdrawal retained only five towns from the india. britain became a colonial overlord since this. and britain put the costs of the war passed on to the north american colonies. this caused the dissatisfaction of local people and leaded to the boston tea party. in november of the same year, seven large-scale merchant bound to colonial. they including four bound to boston, the other three were bound to new york, charleston and philadelphia. the ship will not dock and the reviews of newspaper were filled with the smell of gunpowder. the importers in new york, charleston and philadelphia lost the courage to accept the goods. the tons of tea have to be shipped back to london. four ships of tea which were bound to boston have more tragic fate. december 16th in 1773, samuel and adams lead the indians who were made-up by the sons of liberty sneaked into the merchant. they put 342 boxes of tea that the value about 1.5 million pounds in to the sea. whether or not samuel adams helped plan the boston tea party is unknown, but he immediately worked to publicize and defend it. he argued that the tea party was not the act of a lawless mob, but was instead a principled protest and the only remaining option the people had to defend their constitutional rights.governor thomas hutchinson had been urging london to take a hard line with the sons of liberty. if he had done what the other royal governors had done and let the ship owners and captains resolve the issue with the colonists, the dartmouth, eleanor and the beaver would have left without unloading any tea.in britain, even those politicians considered friends of the colonies were appalled and this act united all parties there against the colonies. the prime minister lord north said, whatever may be the consequence, we must risk something; if we do not, all is over. the british government felt this action could not remain unpunished, and responded by closing the port of boston and putting in place other laws known as the coercive acts.in the colonies, benjamin franklin stated that the destroyed tea must be repaid, all 90,000 pounds (which, at two shillings per pound, comes to 9,000). robert murray, a new york merchant, went to lord north with three other merchants and offered to pay for the losses, but the offer was turned down. a number of colonists were inspired to carry out similar acts, such as the burning of the peggy stewart. the boston tea party eventually proved to be one of the many reactions that led to the american revolutionary war. why did the north american people refuse to import which is cheaper from the east india company? east india companys tea is very cheap, but its in order to suppress the local teas price. at that time, american peoples wish of free was especially strong. they dont want to see such an outcome. because of the cheap price weighed on the local tea and it caused a lot of smuggling and t