Essay #4: Boston Tea Party

What if? This question would raise a lot of conversation on America's earlier history. This would be because if you change one thing you could change where we are now and what we are able to have now, this would include freedom. Almost everything would change the fact of us having complete freedom, though thank god nothing did. Even the boston tea party. What if the boston tea party would not have happened? I dont think that people would see this as a big deal, though it could change everything.

The Boston Tea Party was a time in history where EVERYTHING was being taxed even stamps and these were called the townsend acts, the grenville acts. Well one of the things that the king George III wanted to tax was tea, well the common people of boston did not like that at all. So when a shipment of tea arrived on the port of Boston the drunk commoners arrived on the boat and dumped about 340 chests of tea (value of 10,000 franks). They had done it in a matter of hours and the king was not impressed. Now my question was, what if this wouldn't have happened? Well if the commeners were not drinking they probably wouldn't have had the guts to do anything about it and if they wouldn't have dumped the tea then the king wouldn't have gotten the message. If the king wouldn't have gotten the message then taxes would have kept going up and probably to a rate un-bareable.

This would be significant today because if that wouldn't have happened maybe we would be a monarchy and not have all the freedoms and rights that we have. Or maybe we would have alot higher taxes then we do now. See if only this would happen agian today but with oil, could you imagine what people would say have 450 barrles of oil dumped right into the harbor. I think that if someone would just stand up like the people back then, then maybe we wouldnt be in this position much longer. I think that it was a good idea for them to dump all of the tea.