The James Journal Jun. 2014 | Page 17

  16   citizens  into   line.   He  wouldn’t   let   ships  full   of   congress,  making  appeals  to  British  people  and   tea   leave   the   harbor   until   they   had   unloaded   even   the   Declaration   of   Rights,   created   The   their   ships.   About   one-­‐hundred  Bostonians,  on   Association.   It   was   a   step   up   from   December   16,   1773,   dressed   themselves   as   nonimportation   agreements,   as   it   completely   Indians   and   dumped   342   chests   of   tea   into   the   boycotted   British   products:   nonimportation,   harbor;   an   eventful   night  known  as   the   Boston   nonexportation,  and  noncomsumption.  It  was  a   Tea  Party.     step  forward  to  repeal  the  Intolerable  Acts,  but     also  a  step  toward  revolution.     In   reaction   to   the   Boston   Tea   Party,   Parliament   passed   the   Intolerable   Acts   in     1774.   It   took   away   many   of   Massachusetts’s   came   from   came   from   economics.   Britain   rights,   which   included   Parliament   closing   the   attempts  to  tax  the  Americans  were,  though   it   Boston   harbor.   The   Quebec   Act   accompanied   didn’t   seem   like,   just.   In   England,   citizens   the   Intolerable   Acts   in   1774,   but   by   complete   already   paid   taxes   much   higher   than   the   coincidence.   This   expanded   the   Quebec   colonists.  Although  they  had  representation  in   boundaries  down  the  junction  of  the  Ohio  and   Parliament   and   the   colonists   didn’t,   they   both   Mississippi   Rivers.   This   also   angered   many   had   military   protection,   but   only   the   English   Americans,  as   they  were   now   not  able   to   claim   paid   for   that.   If   the   British   made   their   own   more   land.   As   more   Americans   saw   money   citizens   pick  up  the   slack   for   the  colonies,  their   vanish   from   their  pockets,  so  did   their  loyalty   own   citizens   could   have   rebelled.   But   Britain   to  Britain.   decided  to  tax  the   Americas,  and   they  were   the     ones  who  rebelled.   The   First   Continental   Congress   was   called   upon   in   1774,   in   response   to   the   Intolerable   Acts.   John   Adams   persuaded   the   congress  to  go  down  a  revolutionary  road.  This     Many   of   the   roots   of   the   revolution   Questions,  comments,  or  ideas   on  what  I  should  write  about   next?  Email  me  at   [email protected]