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King George III approved and signed the bill. -
Many people approved of the Townshend Act. -
James Ottis suggested that residents and merchants to volunteer to boycott the British goods. -
Samuel Adams wrote a letter for the colonists to their populations to resist the Act. -
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Towns in Massachusetts, Newport, Rhode Island, and Connecticut agreed to boycott the British goods. -
The act was repealed besides having tax on tea. -
They had a plan to not pay for the tax of the tea and had guards barricade to prevent the ship from coming through. -
The deadline to pay the tax for the tea was coming up. When the tea arrived in Boston, the Patriots ordered them to not load the tea and to sent it back to England without paying tax, but Thomas Hutchinson wanted the tea unloaded and the tea taxes payed. Many of the people in Boston met up for a meeting of what should happen to the tea since they all wanted different things. They were denied the pass of letting the ship leave Boston unmolested, and said maybe the salt water and tea will mix. -
Beginning and end of the Boston Tea Party
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With the denied pass, they didn't know what to do. The people of Boston said the Boston Harbor was going to become a teapot that night. The people of Boston dressed themselves up to be represented as Americans and not the British. Many people from around the world came to dress up as Indians to march with the people of Boston. -
There was no damage to the three ships, crew, or any of the other items besides the padlock. The people was careful to make sure nothing but the tea was destroyed. After destroying the tea, they moved things back into place and made it seem like no damage was done to the ships. While they were throwing the tea chests overboard, some people were stealing some tea for their families to use. -
After the destruction of the tea, many of the participants fled to avoid getting arrested. There was no violence and nobody got harmed, but only one man got arrested for participating. Weeks after, Boston smelt like the thousands pounds of tea they poured into the harbor. -
Washington persuaded the congress to reform the supply system and end the shortages. Von Steuben taught the soldiers new skills. The reforming in the supply system and the new skills taught for a unified army became the foundation of the modern United States. -
Continental soldiers march into Valley Forge. The Valley Forge is where men build their huts. The people who marched into the Valley Forge began to build many huts which turned it into the fourth largest city. The city was very diverse, having enslaved African Americans, Indigenous people, immigrants, and more. -
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Washington's troops marched out of Valley Forge. Their army improvement of being more unified made them more capable of defeating the British. Five years later they won the American Independence. -
After the Cornwallis move their troops to Yorktown, the American and French go outside of NYC to Yorktown to trap the Cornwallis. -
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The American and French dig trenches until they're close enough to bombard the city of Yorktown. The French defeats the British which resulted in the inability of resupplying or aiding Cornwallis. -
Cornwallis surrenders and sends a troop to give a sword back to Washington.