- What surprised you the most about what you read?
I learned that it wasn't easy back then to pay taxes, but they still had to be paid someway or another. They could've have gave them another week or so to pay the tax for the tea instead of just wasting it and being low down. Throwing the tea overboard was not tolerable and even though they were doing that some still managed to stuff some in there pockets, though some got caught and were sent to jail.
What surprised me was that when some stuff some tea into their pockets they were sent to jail, it shouldn't have mattered they were wasting it anyways, least it was gone be put to use. And another was well something i didn't understand is why did they dress up as Mohawk Indians; what was the purpose? Something that was low down and surprising was after days/a day passed they really didn't want people to get any of the visible tea floating on top of the water so some men got into little boats and started beating it with oars and paddles.
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Ok. Your post shows that you read the document. The reason the colonists dumped and destroyed the tea is because they were trying to make a point to the British that they were not going to follow their tax laws. I don't know why they dressed up like Indians!
Good post. A couple small errors, but overall well written. 28/30 points.
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