day 2 post

Today we did an Edcafe discussion in class, in the begining there wasn't much talking and more so people trying to get down information, but after the initial shock everyone began to relax and take in the information and ask questions. One of the events that showed me how a bunch of things conected was the Townshed acts. The townshed acts contained The Sugar act, the Stamp act, and the Quartering act. The colonies were very against these acts which helped them form no taxation without representation." All the people wanted to do was be heard and let the British Parliment that what they were doing was wrong and wouldn't be tolerated. These acts caused an event called the boston tea party. Even tough the tea britain was importing was less than what they were paying for the Colonies would not purchase their tea and would make their own and smuggle other tea into the country. This caused the company to retreat because it could feel the tension between the colonies and britain, but the ship wasn't allowed to leave until the tea was sold. So one night a group of colonists dressed up as indians and boarded the boat and tiped the tea barrels in to the boston harbor. The British parlement had no idea that the colonist were going to commit such an act and caused such a scene. All the colonist were trying to do was be heard and that was the only reason why they dumped the tea into the harbor it was an act of passion so the Parliment could take a step back and see that the Colonist were over these acts Britain kept throwing at them and that they were going to take a stand for what they believe in. If Britain had listened than none of this would have happened and there would have been no need for the Boston Macasar or the boston tea party because the Colonist would have "no taxation without representation".