Real story of the Boston Tea Party
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consul
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Posted 7:53 pm, 11/05/2024
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The USA has one of the finest museums in the world where you can research just about any historical facts you may choose. It's not just confined to American history; its archives also embrace world history. I've attended many school presentations of the Thanksgiving story and have had to really use a great deal of restraint to stop myself from standing up and shouting: "What are you doing to our kids?"
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antithesis
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Posted 7:35 pm, 11/05/2024
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Going down the rabbit hole a little further...
About 1/3 of the colonists supported the American Revolution and about 1/3 supported the British Crown. The rest didn't care one way or the other, and would change their allegiance based on whatever was convenient at the time.
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consul
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Posted 1:19 pm, 11/05/2024
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If Trump gets in we'll be Russian citizens and Vlad's subjects.
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sparkling water
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Posted 10:41 am, 11/05/2024
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Just think, if we were still subjects of the Crown, King Chuck could levy hefty taxes on Starbucks products. That'd piss a lot of people off.
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adamwl12
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Posted 10:31 am, 11/05/2024
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You are all about to find out everything you know and have been told is lie. Been telling you this for a couple years. Now Anti wants to talk about it. Imagine that?
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consul
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Posted 10:11 am, 11/05/2024
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Flakey is unable to differentiate between the English head of state and Parlaiment. Regardless to whom the grievances were addressed the decisions regarding the American colonies were made in Parliament. This is typical of someone trying to make a point by reading something into a narrative that isn't there. Or, in Flakey's it could be to his lack of historical knowledge, he has little enough knowledge of American history one can hardly expect him to know much about 18th century England.
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Fakey
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Posted 9:34 am, 11/05/2024
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Hey henry, of the twenty seven grievances against George III listed on 07/04/76 which one makes YOU feel the most threatened?
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consul
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Posted 9:08 am, 11/05/2024
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What remarkable examples of typical Republican ignorance of history. I guess you can make allowance for Foxxy she attended private school, did Flakey go to school?
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Fakey
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Posted 6:52 am, 11/05/2024
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Hey henry, why do YOU feel the Declaration of Independence is not an "authentic document"?
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Foxnose
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Posted 4:44 am, 11/05/2024
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Did the king not realize he could have just increased the taxes and spent the money on pipedreams and caused America to prosper. Shucks, surely he could have just printed more paper money and made us rich. Like the Democrats do
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consul
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Posted 5:20 pm, 11/04/2024
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Bertie, it would seem that you're one of the lovers of the fairy tales: The Pilgrims and the Indians were great buddies, Georgie cut down the cherry tree, America was founded on Christianity etc. etc. etc. Go to the Smithsonian web site, it might cause you some disillusion depends how good you are at accepting the truth.
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Abraham Drinkin
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Posted 4:12 pm, 11/04/2024
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Do you have proof of your story or are you trying to rewrite history again?
Seems you contradict all the history books
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consul
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Posted 2:22 pm, 11/04/2024
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George III gets a bad rap concerning the American revolution. Those that were really responsible for the abuses heaped on the Americans (the stamp tax, refusal to allow the colonies to mint their own currency etc.} were the "conservative" element that controlled Parlaiment. Unfortunately, too many Americans have been taught mythological rather than factual history. If some of them were to take the trouble to research authentic documents, they would find factual American history is much more interesting and exciting than the fairy tale crap taught in many schools.
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knslyr
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Posted 2:02 pm, 11/04/2024
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antithesis
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Posted 1:51 pm, 11/04/2024
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I'm always coming across these stories that we were all taught in school, just to find that we were taught propaganda!
That never made sense... if they wanted the British to think it was Indians do it, why yell and prove to them that it wasn't?
When a story doesn't make sense then there's usually a reason why. And true to form, the REAL story is a little different than we were taught.
England had gone to war with France for the Colonies, which cost a lot of money. The King wanted to recoup that money, and so he did add a tax to the tea. That much is true.
Colonial capitalists saw the price increase, though, and used the opportunity to buy tea from the Dutch instead so that they could sell for cheaper.
After awhile, the King noticed that the tea he was sending over wasn't selling, so he chose to remove the tax. He wasn't making anything anyway, so it was pointless.
So when the next shipment of tea came in and the price was far lower than what the capitalists were paying the Dutch, they came up with a plan to destroy the tea themselves! But it had nothing to do with the tax... the tax had already been repealed. It was simply a bunch of rich people that were angry that they were going to lose money, so they destroyed the competitor's inventory so that they could have a monopoly on the tea.
This act of defiance was one of the steps towards the American Revolution, but it's interesting to see how the people were just manipulated by the rich.
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