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Hi! I'm Studyfin, your history tutor. Today we will explore how a big war and some tea changed the world forever!
Before the American Revolution, Great Britain and the colonists fought the French and Indian War. Britain won but went deep into debt. To pay for the war, Britain started taxing the American colonists.
The colonists were angry because they had no say in these new taxes. Their famous protest cry was 'No taxation without representation!' In 1773, angry colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest the tea tax.
The war began in 1775. After years of hard fighting, the colonists won their independence in 1783. This resulted in the official establishment of a brand-new nation: the United States of America.
Analyze the cause-and-effect relationship between the French and Indian War and the Boston Tea Party. Show how one event led to the other step by step.
- Identify the starting cause: Great Britain wins the French and Indian War but runs out of money.
- Analyze the British reaction: To get money, Britain passes new tax laws on the American colonists.
- Analyze the colonist reaction: Colonists feel these taxes are unfair because they have no representatives in the British government.
- Connect to the final effect: Colonists protest the tax on tea by dumping British tea into Boston Harbor, which is the Boston Tea Party.
