Card #7082 Boston Tea Party and coffee

Prior to the Boston Tea Party, tea was the most popular drink for colonists in America. Most of the colonial Americans were English, and tea had been the traditional drink in England. The "tea tax" was England's way of demonstrating their long reach of power to America. The passing of this selective tax without legislative representation empowered Americans to fight for their independence.

Ponder This: Would coffee be as popular as it is today had it not been for the British tea tax and the Boston Tea Party? The colonists were angry enough to begin a revolution, and risk their lives over a tax on tea and the idea of not being represented in legislation. What would it take today to get people angry enough with unfair governance to start a revolution? What does this say about culture today versus the culture at the time of the American Revolution? Had the colonists not chosen to fight for their independence at that time, how might the course of history have been different in the United States of America, and the rest of the world? Would there have been a United States of America?

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