The Tea act and the Townshend act of 1767 sparked a lot anger between the
colonist. Because North was suspected of illegally smuggling tea into the
colonies the members of parliament asked him to stop but also made the East
India Company’s tea more competitive. This was a way for the colonist to start
rebelling once again and they used the opportunity to their advantage by
picking up old habits and protesting but also harassing officials and members
of parliament. No matter how many protest or how much they hated it the ships
kept coming back with more items and tea on board. Hutchinson had told the
colonist that he was against the ships return or even them coming in the
beginning. No matter what people said he would not budge and left the ships in
the Harbor and like I said earlier Rotch came to ask and pleaded to let the
ships go but he didn’t. He willingly
took what was coming to him because it would show paliment that because they
did not make the colonist behave they were lost and he also knew that they
weren’t going to behave if they were made to behave either. Hutchinson accepted
people’s criticism and their judgments so that he could use them as black mail
for his own revenge games.
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| Thomas Hutcinson |
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| The Tea act and the Townshend act of 1767 |
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