Tea Party in Boston

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Peter D.G. Thomas

Yayın yılı:

1991

Yayıncı:

Oxford University Press

British government policy for America in 1774 was to be based on the premiss that Boston was the centre of resistance to the tea duty. Punitive action was initiated against that port, and other legislation enacted to tighten control over Massachusetts; but no formal notice was taken of the circumstances elsewhere that had prevented any sale in America of tea dispatched under the 1773 Tea Act. That was a deliberate decision. Both official correspondence and public news from America made British Prime Minister Lord North only too well informed as to what had happened in the colonies. Yet the cabinet chose to ignore the general resistance in seeking to make an example of Boston. The Boston Tea Party was a more direct and violent challenge to British authority than had occurred in the Stamp Act Crisis and the Townshend Duties crisis, and there was now in Britain a ministry that could not and would not overlook it.

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