The main three viewpoints in this story of rebellion are all different. First, the Patriot/Sons of Liberty viewpoint was that it was an acceptable action to represent thoughts of the taxation of tea and other goods. It wasn’t like that for England, as they saw it as an unnecessary action toward England; they (colonists) needed obedience. And finally, the textbook was mostly neutral, seeing both sides having justified actions. The text saw it as a clumsy way of getting the colonists’ points across. These viewpoints all had their justifiable reasons; who was the right one?

All of the hassle began almost a decade before the historical event, when the Sugar Tax of 1764

“Parliament, in attempting to exercise its supposed right of taxing the colonies, has never hitherto demanded of them anything which even approached to a just proportion to what was paid by their fellow subjects at home.” (Cecil 8)

England must write the American textbooks, as it seems that the text agrees with them. There were a few keys to the third view, like the Sons of Liberty’s ignorance and agreements with English thought.

The text thought that British officials were smart in their decision to enforce laws lightly as possible. The loud protests at harbors only turned the ships around and the colonies didn’t get tea. It seems that only in Boston did an official refuse to be cowed. Massachusetts was the hotbed of dissatisfaction, and Boston was the hotbed of Massachusetts (Chidsey 31). The book viewed the Liberty boys as rebellious and they didn’t have their minds straight. Overall, this was one wake-up that history twisted.

My conclusion is that colonists were getting hostile and cocky because they were separated from mother England. The English didn’t want to lose the huge landmass that was the colonies. That was the problem, since they both wanted something that just one of them could have: their own way. The two sides of the Boston Tea Party were very different, although they both wanted to get their own way.

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