Thursday, June 12, 2008

Essay #4

What if the Boston Tea Party never happened? The British dumped over 300 barrels of tea over the side of the boat. The people should of been guarding the boat better because if they did then something like that didn't have to happen. The Tea Party happened in 1773 and this all happened because the colonists refused to pay to Townsend acts and wanted to protest. They didn't want to sell the tea so they had it out on the boat and the British got a hold of it and threw it off. The Boston Tea Party made people very angry because all the tea was gone and it was all in the water now.

What if they didn't dumb the tea over the edge? If they didn't do this then the war that followed afterwards would have never taken place. If the defenders of the boat were more organized and knew what was going on then this wouldn't of happen. They didn't keep their guard and they let them on. Throwing the tea over made them realize what they had done and there was nothing that they could do about it. All of the tea that they were going to sell, they never got to because they had to let them throw it over. They're was a huge fight that happened after all of this because they were angry.

This event is important today because now the defense is getting trained better and people are understanding how to control something. If they didn't throw over the tea the fight wouldn't of occurred. Today would be different because people would be more aware of what is happening and also that defense would pay attention and learn how to fight and how to protect something. This made everyone think twice about what was happening and how to fix and people had heads up.

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