Anti-Nixon demonstration at ‘Boston Tea Party’

Subject :History

Section: World history

Context:

The “Boston tea party,” which triggered off the American Revolution 200 years ago and subsequently led to the country’s independence from England was reenacted on December 17,2023 at Boston Harbour and India was the only foreign country which was invited to participate in the bicentennial because of “our common colonial past (The East India Company held both countries in virtual thraldom then) and revolutionary heritage.”

About Boston Tea Party, 1773

The Boston Tea Party was an iconic event of the American history. In this incident entire shipment of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Native Indians.
It was a political protest against both: a tax on tea (taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.
Angry mobs and the Sons of Liberty forced ships carrying company’s tea to return to England without unloading.
In Massachusetts, however, the Royal Governor was determined to let the ships deposit their cargoes and appropriate duties to be honored.
On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded these ships in the Boston harbor and threw the chests of tea overboard.
The British government reacted harshly to the incident of Boston Tea Party. The British government decided to punish Boston and the people of Massachusetts with a series of acts which came to be known as the Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts of 1774.

What was American Revolution

The American Revolution (1775-83) was also known as the United States War of Independence or American Revolutionary War.
This watershed event was an outcome of the repressive and tyrannous policies (like Mercantilism, excessive taxation, etc.) of Britain in its North American colonies mainly after the second half of 18th century.
Thirteen of Great Britain’s colonies (along the eastern seaboard of North America) rebelled in the American Revolutionary War, primarily over representation, local laws and tax issues.
These Thirteen colonies (New Hampshire, Massachusetts , Connecticut , Rhode Island, New York , New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland , Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia) came together to establish the United States of America, which was recognized internationally with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 03, 1783.