Captain America Tea Party

The Tea Party – As the Boston Tea Party Shaped a Nation

Saturday at dusk, I sat perched atop a roof, straining to see pass the silhouette of a pine tree, hypnotized by the red and blue stripes, green and silver shimmering pulsating who painted the night sky. Holidays ceded across America as people gathered by barbecue, beer and kicked back piled up under the sky, celebrating the day 233 years ago our forefathers declared an independent nation.

So what does this have to do with tea?

Let's go back a bit … much, really. Until the early 1700s, Britain had given a monopoly on all tea imported and distributed in your country. The East India Trading Company was the only legal importer of tea, and who paid for these rights a heavy tax of 25% on all imported goods. Tea was bought in bulk at auction in Britain and then imported from there to the colonies, where he faced an additional tax. This, in turn, raised the price of tea significantly to the end user, and as a result boosted illegal import of tea countries as the Netherlands. In fact, both the tea was brought illegally into the country that until the 1760's the East India Trading Company began to suffer despite their rights monopoly. In order to help the company, Britain allowed the East India Company to direct imports into the Americas, cutting the broker in Britain and increasing their profit margin dramatically. The high tax on tea to the colonists were left in place however, and the colonists in America, outraged at the high levels of taxation faced with no representation in government, this was the last straw.

Until the early 1770s the American colonists had issued a boycott of all products of tea and had turned several successful product ships from its ports. In 1773, when three large ships entered the port of Boston, several men guarding the area to make sure that the product can not be unloaded, while more than seven thousand settlers gathered in a meeting together to discuss tactics of the strike. For twenty days, the settlers insisted the ship captain to return to Britain with the product, and the opposition governor of Massachusetts, for twenty days the vessels Sat stationery. On December 16, 1773, the eve of the twentieth day, over a hundred men disguised as Indians lightly touched each of the three ships. Hacking with their hatchets, which opened each of the 342 boxes of tea and poured the contents over the edge and open water below. More than 90,000 pounds of loose tea was lost the sea that night.

The event, dubbed the "Boston Tea Party" was not well received in Britain. In response the parliament, British enacted the Acts of coercion, which essentially closed the port of Boston to all commerce and the ships entering and demanded payment of the product lost. This punishment hurt drastically settlers in Massachusetts, likes and began to pour from other colonies. The intention of the Acts of coercion was to keep the colonies into line, however, only served to unite them against British rule. The first Continental Congress was held as a result of September 1774, and within a year the colonies were launched against the British armies in the Revolutionary War.

The Boston Tea Party is one of the first acts of protest in our nation, and how the colonies to become the United States of America and our Constitution was written the right to freedom of expression and protest was remembered and protected. In recent months, news has been flush with members of the GOP gathering in several cities across the country to protest the recent spending by the administration Obama. They called these meetings "Tea Parties".

The July 4 celebrates the day in 1776 that the Declaration of Independence from Britain was writing. Two hundred and thirty-three years later, we remain a strong and independent nation, and Britain has remained a close ally, despite the early difficult for our relationship. In remembrance, I would like to propose a toast to our country and also for what separated long ago, and how best to toast with which our English Breakfast tea.

Here is our country: Happy Birthday.

About the Author

Sarah Price was born and raised in the Sonoran Desert in Tucson, Arizona. She has worked as a member of the Maya Tea Company for three years, and enjoys incorporating flavors from the desert into the tea company’s signature blends. For more information about Maya Tea Company or for a list of available tea blends, go to http://www.mayatea.com . For more information about Tucson’s local products, visit http://www.farmersmarkettucson.com .

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