Should the American colonists apoligise for throwing our tea away?
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we apologize to everybody else, why not england too? and while we are at it, we could apologize for that whole silly little revolution thing.\n\nyou know, that tea tax is the reason we are a coffee drinking nation.  starbucks should thank you.
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Serious answers? Oh Ok, this time I am being honest when I say I am expert on the American Revolutionary War and the events leading up to it.\nThe Boston Tea party came about because ole King Georgie III made a decree that it was illegal for colonists to use the letter "T".\nNow that don't sound like much, but try and talk without using the letter "T". My last sentence would go like this, "Now ha don' sound like much, bu ry and alk wihou using he leer " ". See why they were ticked off?\nAnyway, they cut out all these letter T's from the local sugar maples and threw it on on of the British ships until it finally capsized.\nTrue story
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There were two Boston tea parties! \n\n      Everyone knows how 50 or 60 "Sons of Liberty," disguised as Mohawks, protested the 3 cents per pound British tax on tea by dumping chests of the popular drink into Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773. Fewer know that the improper Bostonians repeated the performance on March 7, 1774. The two tea parties cost the British around $3 million in modern money\n\n\n History's first submarine attack took place in New York Harbor in 1776! \n\n      The Connecticut inventor David Bushnell called his submarine the Turtle because it resembled two large tortoise shells of equal size joined together. The watertight hull was made of 6-inch-thick oak timbers coated with tar. On September 6, 1776, the Turtle targeted the HMS Eagle, flagship of the British fleet. The submarine was supposed to secure a cask of gunpowder to the hull of the Eagle and sneak away before it exploded. Unfortunately, the Turtle got entangled with the Eagle's rudder bar, lost ballast and surfaced before the gunpowder could be planted. \n\nBenedict Arnold was the best general in the Continental Army! \n\n      "Without Benedict Arnold in the first three years of the war," says the historian George Neumann, "we would probably have lost the Revolution." In 1775, the future traitor came within a whisker of conquering Canada. In 1776, he built a fleet and fought a bigger British fleet to a standstill on Lake Champlain. At Saratoga in 1777, his brilliant battlefield leadership forced the British army to surrender. The victory persuaded the French to join the war on the American side. Ironically, Arnold switched sides in 1780 partly because he disapproved of the French alliance\n\n By 1779, as many as one in seven Americans in Washington's army was black! \n\n      At first Washington was hesitant about enlisting blacks. But when he heard they had fought well at Bunker Hill, he changed his mind. The all-black First Rhode Island Regiment -- composed of 33 freedmen and 92 slaves who were promised freedom if they served until the end of the war -- distinguished itself in the Battle of Newport. Later, they were all but wiped out in a British attack. \nThere were women in the Continental Army, even a few who saw combat! \n\n      Probably the best known is Mary Ludwig Hays, nicknamed "Molly Pitcher." She replaced her wounded husband at his cannon during the Battle of Monmouth in 1778. Another wife of an artilleryman, Margaret Corbin, was badly wounded serving in her husband's gun crew at the Battle of Harlem Heights in 1776. Thousands of other women served in Washington's army as cooks and nurses.\n\nBy 1779, there were more Americans fighting with the British than with Washington! \n\n      There were no less than 21 regiments (estimated to total 6,500 to 8,000 men) of loyalists in the British army. Washington reported a field army of 3,468. About a third of Americans opposed the Revolution. \n\nKing George almost abdicated the throne when the British lost! \n\n      After Yorktown, George III vowed to keep fighting. When parliament demurred, the King wrote a letter of abdication -- then withdrew it. He tried to console himself with the thought that Washington would become a dictator and make the Americans long for royal rule. When he was told that Washington planned to resign his commission, the monarch gasped: "If he does that, sir, he will be the greatest man in the world
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NO!\n\ni think they should learn from our founding fathers to fight for their own rights, and they should stop trying to appease to their sick mullahs.
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They have ruined their country and would now like to mooch of the US. They come here saying this is their land. We have taken it from them. They better bring more than 12 million if they want to take it back from us. We will not lay down and let them overrun us. Look at L.A. and you will see what will become of the US if they succeed. The Us is a free handout to them and that is our governments fault. The government had better do something soon or there will be another Boston Tea Party.
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do you mean the 'American Revolution'?\n\nwell the first reason is the Quartering Act. the quartering act is an act that made colonists quarter, or house, british soldiers in their homes.\n\nanother reason is the Proclamation (think mispell) of 1763. it prevented colonists from moving wesword past the appalation mountains. it violated their rights as britians.\n\nTHe third reason is the Sugar Act. THe sugar act is simply a tax on sugar, molasses (which is syurp) and other sugar products. this angered the colonists because colonists loved to drink tea with sugar. \n\nThe fourth reason is the Stamp Act. THe stamp act is a replacement for the Sugar Act. I am unshure about when the stamp act was repealed, though. the stamp act is a tax on legal documents, stamps, even playing cards, etc. (pretty much any product that has paper in/on/ or is paper\n\nThe townshed act is another reason. i dont know what it exactly did, but it isnt a tax. i think it was a limit on what the things that colonists can do.\n\nThe Blockade of Boston Harbor is another reason. it was a wall of ships that blocked ships (mainly ships that carryed imports) from coming into the colonists.\n\nthere are many other reasons why, but these are main reasons
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OK, well Columbus wasn't working for the British, look that up on wiki if you don't know that.  secondly with the help of the French we kicks some British ass, look up American revolution on wiki
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lmao this is a joke right??? if not then you are a as.shole if i was your wife i would kick your as.s why dont you have tea ready for her in the morning ...you are so selfish i have to much to say so i gtg
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Bound's hubby here:\n\nAmerica should not be ashamed. What American should be ashamed of is that it's citizenry has not learned the facts of it's history, but learned interpretations of history which can be molded by the opinion giver. Some Americans may remember that Thomas Jefferson borrowed his inspiration for the Declaration of Independence from John Locke. But what they may not know, choose to remember, or choose to exclude is thatg Locke also believed that when a government fails to meet the needs of it's people, the people have a duty and an obligation to overthrow that government. Perhaps, if more primary documents were required to be read in schools such sa the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers, more people would be aware of the true intent of the Founding Fathers.\n\nNow, why are Americans and their gun ownership being attacked when in Switzerland (a true democracy) only an armed citizen has the right to vote and the government issues machine guns to it's citizens (ages 18-55)?\n\nWhile some may be obsessed by their love of guns in America, more Americans are obsessed by their love of freedom which their guns guarantee them.
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That's alright. At least we kicked your sorry A** out of our country. We also saved your sorry A** in WWII! Without us Yanks, you'd be speaking German right now. YANKS RULE!  Now go drink some tea and do your little pish posh soccer dance somewhere else.
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In order to commemorate the Pilgrims who came for religious freedom, died in the cold New England winter, decided that the Indians were god's gift to them as slaves, killed god's gift to them (the indians), and then decided to have a picnic...\n\nOh yes, did i mention that they decided that ONLY their religion could have religious tolerence in the new world?
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Honestly, the fact that you are asking the question in fear of offending only attests to the fact that the chances are slight that you WILL offend someone.  It's not that the Brits are anti-American, it's that they are anti-stupid-American.  They dislike arrogance, and are unused to people pouring out their life's story for anyone who will listen.  They are also very private, unlike American's, and do not appreciate invasive, private questions, i.e. about how much money one makes, etc.  In other words, etiquette that used to be considered commonplace here.  \n\nAnd as for the actual etiquette books, unless you are planning on having a number of parties, or will take tea with the queen, etiquette books are going to be useless.  As long as you can identify when someone else is uncomfortable, and you make an effort to rectify the situation, you will be fine.\n\nIt's very commendable that you are entering into a new culture with every intention to act correctly, and not offend anyone.  Oh, that everyone could feel as you do...
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No way, its not a one sided story, the English supporters were antagonised and hunched into a confined space. tempers flared. both side were to blame. in any case if u invite guests to a party n they make a mess you dont expect them to clear up do you!
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I agree\nI think the Americans should leave all the lands they stole from others!!!
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One of the big issues leading up to the war was trade.  At that time, the Southern colonies had a huge market with the British, exporting raw materials to England to be made into finished products (if not sending their products to the northern factories).  A lot of the taxes were levied for imports and exports (which would make sense because the ports were in the northern colonies).  Isn't it odd that southerners love tea and northerners drink lots of coffee?  Some think that the reason Americans love coffee so much, is because we were trying to get away from the British tradition of drinking tea...
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The intolerable acts. it closed the boston port until the tea was paid for. It also required colonists to house british troops, and gave royal officials more power.
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I admitt to this being a guess but I would think it would be the American colonists. The Boston Tea Party was in 1773 and more and more American's were refusing to drink tea because of the tax.