The Night of the Boston Tea Party
I am about to talk about my grandfather John, he was in the Boston Tea party. He blames the Loyalist because of their unfair taxes, unfair rules, and think they have the blame for the Boston Tea Party. He was the bravest Patriot I knew. So without further ado this is my grandfather's journey through the Boston Tea Party.
It was December 16, 1773 John was talking about how he did not like the British taxes and laws to his wife Mary. His best friend Sam comes up to him and tells him about the plan they have to protest the British Parliament's tax on tea.
“The Sons of Liberty are going to dump the next cargo ship of tea when it arrives during the night time”, Sam said.
“We could get into a lot of trouble Sam, you know this”, said John. “But we are
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So with that Sam left from John’s front porch and continued onto his house. The rest of that day all John could think about was their plan. Mary was not to fond of this plan and wanted John to say no. She knew her husband had the chance of getting caught and being killed. Mary could not imagine what life would be like without him so she wanted him to refuse Sam’s invitation to go raid the tea ship that came that night.
If John went to tonight's event he either lives or dies he has a wife and three kids he’d lose them. His kids would grow up without a father, John couldn’t bare to think of what would happen if he were to die. But in the end he is a Patriot and he needs to stand up for his people. So his final decision now is...he will be apart of the Boston Tea Party.
It was 11:50 pm right now and John is on his way to the Boston Harbor. John felt the adrenaline rushing through him as he got closer. He saw Sam up ahead with Alex, Johnny, Mazen, and Peter. Sam looked super excited to see me.
“JOHN!!!!! Buddy you came”, Sam said.
I just replied with a simple head nod not really knowing what to say to
However, this is inaccurate because he avoids Abigail and risks everything for his wife. Elizabeth was taken by the court because she was accused for being a witch, but John knows she is a good women and fights for her. Elizabeth is worth the trouble of going to the court and defying the government. It is honorable for a husband to protect his wife after all they are family. John is talking to the court and tell the court a secret that no one knows about, John’s reputation is on the line.
John does what he can to save his wife, but does not succeed in his plan. As things progressively get worse, indictments are filed against him and and he is sentenced to be hanged. John signs a paper admitting to be a witch,
The American colonists held the Boston Tea Party on December, 1773. It was not a party though. It was a protest against taxs from England. The British Parliament had already taxed sugar, coffee, wine, and newspapers. The tea tax was too much.
She is faced with helping her husband make the biggest and most final choice in his life so far. Since they have been apart for a while, separated by prison, it would be incredibly easy for her to say that he should live and give up his good name just so she can still have her husband and her kids have their father. It would be incredibly difficult for her to see John for a few minutes after a long time apart and say he can sacrifice himself for the greater good. However, she sees the situation as that: him sacrificing himself for the greater good. She is also strong enough to admit part of the blame is her own, that she has a hand in the guilt he feels about their relationship.
On December 16,1773 the Boston Tea Party took place. A man by the name of Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty took chests of tea and threw them into the Boston Harbor. Because of this, there were consequences also known as the Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts. The Coercive Acts are a series of four acts: the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.
The Tea Act of 1773 once again inflamed the Northern Radicals although it lowered tea prices. The Radicals were afraid Americans might accept the lower tea prices, which would mean they also accepted the duties (taxation without representation), and put many of the founding fathers out of the business of smuggling tea. Throughout the colonies "tea parties" were held where men turned back ships or boarded them and tossed packaged tea into the harbor. The largest in terms of tea dumped into the sea and the number of men participating was in Boston. Although no "tea party" is held in Georgia (no tea was allocated to Savannah), a somewhat symbolic party was held at the harbor in nearby Charles Town, South Carolina, where a single ship bearing tea
Ross uses juxtaposition between John and Steven. This leads the reader to believe Ann tries to is not satisfied, with John and she will be satisfied with Steven. Therefore, resulting in the affair. Lastly, the end results of Ann having the affair with Steven due to isolation, brings about John’s death. John finally makes it home after fighting the storm to a sight of
This shows that John is a merciful being and desires forgiveness from his wife and God, therefore demonstrating traits of a good man. Furthermore, John has a heated argument with his wife, due to his encounter with Abigail, alone. Although, he thinks his wife will doubt him, she states on the contrary, “I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John - only somewhat bewildered” (55).
John could have used this opportunity to get revenge on Abigail. Instead he makes the honorable decision to personally redeem himself from his previous mistakes. Earlier in the play he claimed that Mary and the girls were “God damn all liars” (Miller 117). This quote demonstrates John judging people for their sins, which is exactly what he claimed he does not do. It shows a dramatic change in his character, a change in personal
But she still didn’t know anything about John. There were rumors about John and him having a wife back in Scotland. He lied and told everyone that `` No, they`re not true. I was married, but my wife died after I left the old country``( Pg 30). So, that the rumors would end and Jessie wont suspect anything.
“She thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore's vengeance, and you must see it now” In this quote, John tells the governor the truth about the affair and that Abigail’s actions are because she is jealous.
Who in her quest to replace the wife of the man she had an affair with (John
in his will for one of his three sons. Against all odds of the time, John leaves it all to Alexandra, his one daughter out of four living children. He says, “Alexandra, her father often said to himself, was like her grandfather; which was his way of saying that she was intelligent” he also states when talking to all of his children, “I want you to keep the land together and to be guided by your sister. I have talked to her since I have been sick, and she knows all my
So, despite not leaving John due to her limited options, that action, displayed her opposition to her husband’s
When the British ships arrived in the Boston Harbor The colonist wanted the tea shipped back to England with out payment of tax. Then the royal governor of England insisted on payment of tax. On December 16 a group of men know as the Sons of Liberty disguised there self as Indians and boarded the British ships and dumped all of the tea into the Boston harbor. After that happened parliament passed Coercive Acts. Theses act were put in to place to punish the colonist for dumping the British tea into the Boston harbor.