The Edenton Tea Party

Examples of The Edenton Tea Party in the following topics:

• Women in the Revolution

  • While the Boston Tea Party of 1773 is the most widely recognized manifestation of this boycott, it is important to note that for years previous to that explosive action, as a political statement, patriot women had refused to consume the very same British product.
  • The Edenton Tea Party represented one of the first coordinated and publicized political actions by women in the colonies.
  • A total of 51 women in Edenton, North Carolina, signed an agreement officially agreeing to boycott tea and other English products and sent it to British newspapers.
  • A British cartoon satirizing the Edenton Tea Party participants.
  • The Edenton Tea Party was a women-led boycott of British products.

• Revolutionary Women

  • Following Obama's speech, spontaneous street parties broke out in cities across the United States including Philadelphia, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, Portland, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Denver, Atlanta, Madison, New York City, and around the world in London; Bonn; Berlin; Obama, Japan; Toronto; Rio de Janeiro; Sydney; and Nairobi.
  • Acts such as drinking British tea or ordering clothes from England that had once been everyday activities demonstrated Colonial opposition during the years leading up to and containing the war.
  • The Edenton Tea Party represented one of the first coordinated and publicized political actions by women in the colonies.
  • Fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina signed an agreement officially agreeing to boycott tea and other English products and sent it to British newspapers.
  • The majority of African Americans in the 1770s lived as slaves, both in the south and the north.

• The Boston Tea Party

  • In response to the British Tea Act of 1773, the Sons of Liberty took action in what would later be known as the Boston Tea Party.
  • The Boston Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773.
  • Whether or not Samuel Adams helped plan the Boston Tea Party is disputed, 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.
  • In Britain, this act united all parties against the colonies.

• The Calm Before the Storm

  • The Tea Act of 1773, and the subsequent Boston Tea Party, arose from two issues confronting the British Empire in 1775: first, the financial problems of the British East India Company, and second, an ongoing dispute about the extent of Parliament's authority, if any, over the British American colonies without seating any elected representation.
  • Parliament attempted to resolve these issues through the Tea Act, which in turn set the stage for the Boston Tea Party and eventually the American Revolution.
  • 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.
  • Instead of selling to middlemen, the company now appointed colonial merchants to receive the tea on consignment; the consignees would in turn sell the tea for a commission.
  • The Tea Act retained the three pence Townshend duty on tea imported to the colonies.

• Tax Protests

  • This also began the rise of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, who staged public protests over the taxes.
  • The Boston Tea Party of 1773, the most popular example, dumped British tea into Boston Harbor because it contained a hidden tax Americans refused to pay.
  • The Parliament attempted a series of taxes and punishments which met more and more resistance, namely the First Quartering Act (1765), the Declaratory Act (1766), the Townshend Revenue Act (1767), and the Tea Act (1773).
  • In response to the Boston Tea Party Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts: the Second Quartering Act (1774), the Quebec Act (1774), the Massachusetts Government Act (1774), the Administration of Justice Act (1774), the Boston Port Act (1774), and the Prohibitory Act (1775).
  • During the Boston Tea Party of 1773, Americans dumped British tea into Boston Harbor in protest of a hidden tax.

• Voluntary Exchange

  • Therefore, any voluntary exchange will increase the welfare of one or both parties and neither will be any worse off.
  • The parties to the exchanges must have information about their own preferences and who the others are that are willing to trade.
  • Neither the buyer nor seller wants the other party to know their reservation price.
  • The monetary price of cola will be labeled, PC, the price of tea Pt.
  • Any voluntary exchange reflects the preferences of the parties to the exchange.

• British Taxes and Colonial Grievances

  • The Townshend Acts, passed in 1767, taxed imports of tea, glass, paint, lead, and even paper.
  • In 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act, which exempted the British East India Company from the Townshend taxes.
  • Thus, the East India Company gained a great advantage over other companies when selling tea in the colonies.
  • The colonists who resented the advantages given to British companies dumped British tea overboard in the Boston Tea Party in December of 1773 .
  • The Boston Tea Party was orchestrated by the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, who fiercely protested the British-imposed taxes.

• Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty

  • Proving their commitment to "the cause of liberty and industry" they openly opposed the Tea Act.
  • They experimented to find substitutes for taxed goods such as tea and sugar.
  • Discoveries like boiled basil leaves to make a tea-like drink, referred to as Liberty Tea, helped lift spirits and also allowed Colonials to keep traditions alive without the use of British taxed tea .
  • These duties taxed items that were frequently imported to the colonies from Britain, including tea, paint, paper, and glass.
  • These import duties were birthed from the Intolerable Acts that Britain passed in the wake of the Boston Tea Party the previous year, which protested high taxes against tea and other products.

• The 2010 Elections

  • The 2010 midterm elections, for national, state, and local governments, resulted in an overwhelming victory for the Republican Party.
  • The Democratic Party suffered massive defeats in most national and state elections, with many seats switching over to Republican Party control.
  • The Republican Party additionally broke the previous majority record of 628 seats in the state legislatures, set by the Democrats in the post-Watergate elections of 1974, by gaining 680 seats in the state legislative races.
  • A fourth factor that contributed to the Republican victories was the mobilizing ability of the Tea Party movement in favor of Republican candidates .
  • The Tea Party movement's ability to mobilize voters in favor of the Republican Party was one of the factors that contributed to many Republican victories during the 2010 elections.

• Party Identification

  • People who identify with a political party either declare their allegiance by joining the party or show their support through regular party-line voting at the polls.
  • For example, a child growing up in the 1970s would associate the Republican party with the Watergate scandal of the Nixon administration or a child growing up in the 1990s would associate the Democratic party with the sex scandal of the Clinton administration.
  • The longer an individual holds a party identification, the stronger that attachment to the party becomes.
  • As voter identification with political parties has declined, so has dedication to the two-party system.
  • A social movement grouped under the umbrella of the "Tea Party" emerged in 2010 but its adherents never created an officially recognized political party.