The story behind the Boston Tea Party - Ben Labaree

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Discover what led American colonists in 1773 to toss tea into the Boston Harbor in what became known as the Boston Tea Party.
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Before the Revolutionary War, American colonists were taxed heavily for importing tea from Britain. The colonists, not fans of "taxation without representation", reacted by dumping tea into the Boston Harbor, a night now known as the Boston Tea Party. Ben Labaree gets into the nitty-gritty of that famous revolutionary act.
Lesson by Ben Labaree, animation by Nick Fox-Gieg Animation.
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@vanessacardui8487 9 лет назад

And so they switched to coffee.

@akshaygupta6711 7 лет назад

Actually, they really switched to coffee as a sign of Patriotism

@TheRedArrowExpress 6 лет назад

No. They switched to covfefe.

@iamamazinganssmart6345 5 лет назад

I hate coffee for sum reason

@icypanther1539 5 лет назад

Hahahah

@grim_gravy 5 лет назад

Lol

@thatguy7155 4 года назад

Modern smuggling: drugs, human, weapon. Smuggling in the 1700s : *TEA*

@scribbledwords9956 3 года назад

jsjjs

@ibk2437 3 года назад

theres smuggling of kfc in some countries, im not joking

@zkingsalsa 2 года назад

i read this as human weapons

@Time12345A Год назад

Humans were being sold legally back then 😅

@Davisvrj2010 3 месяца назад

An we fought over tea

@ay0vee978 3 года назад

Britian: *makes tea cheaper than the smuggled dutch tea* American Colonies: This is an Avengers level threat

@Happymz 3 года назад

Right

@darkmooneternal1066 3 года назад

Yep

@Happymz 3 года назад

Ohh i get it. Because Britain was making tea cheaper, it destoryed the sales of the local farmers so then they attacked?? Idk

@darkmooneternal1066 3 года назад

@heehee-yt2gb 3 года назад

@@Happymz yeah, they made the tea cheaper and the taxes higher which left them in debt or smth :/

@retrosad 4 года назад

"How'd you defeat the British? We deployed the tactical tea boxes, and the British just drank the sea" As a British person, I thought the Boston tea party was the most hilarious thing I've heard of in a while

@theducknamednewepicla9507 2 года назад

Yes so funi

@ayuhaintplayin Год назад

we dont like you tea bags America is better than you. Imagine going into national debt and loosing every war u had with us Americans. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH

@retrosad Год назад

@@ayuhaintplayin how much was your last hospital visit? And that was what... 200 years ago almost? Only 50 years ago you lost to some tree dwelling rice farmers, and a few years ago to some impoverished terrorists

@deadmanwalking915 Год назад

@@retrosad ah it’s so revitalizing to know that you’re still upset over 1776. All that health care and you guys still have the worst dental care on the planet lol. Pud

@cartrellsplunge1525 7 месяцев назад

I heard that the Harvard smelled like tea for quite a long time

@guziman1963 11 лет назад

and then we switched to coffee

@ashleybeverly3884 4 года назад

Soda too! Also Southerns love our Sweet Iced Tea ❤☕☕☕

@jamesmylife6578 3 года назад

Omg yes we love nothing more or we do

@clairepeace5783 3 года назад

And that is when I say leave England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 alone america 🇺🇸 no Diana is not yours 😂 but the Kardashians are 😂 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@saramae194 3 года назад

Lol!

@MrThatguy1338 3 года назад

Not in the south lol we love our sweet tea.

@mladen89ftn 9 лет назад

You forgot to mention why some of them were dressed as native americans. Basically, it was so that they couldn't be recognized later, and if thing got too out-of- hand, they could blame everything on the Indians. So much for bravery....

@miko7271977 7 лет назад

They also made Native Language and culture illegal for 100 years!

@DepravedMorgath 7 лет назад

Don't forget that it was an "American" icon and not a British one.

@clairex4132 6 лет назад

mladen89ftn It wasn’t so that they “couldn’t be recognized”...obviously if you saw one of your friends dressed as a native american you wouldn’t think OMG ITS A NATIVE AMERICAN!! It was to show that they were now true Americans and should be treated as such

@kworca2088 6 лет назад

It was so that no individuals could be recognized, and be charged.

@seanbryant3185 5 лет назад

That's smart, tbh.

@AbhishekRoyscis 10 лет назад

So basically tea's responsible for the independence of America. VIVA LA THE!

@Aim4sixmeals 9 лет назад

NO.

@AbhishekRoyscis 9 лет назад

Jordanshoes are the best "NO"? What was that?

@dkupke 9 лет назад

Not really. It was the lack of representation.

@bornyesterday21 4 года назад

... and the sinking of the Titanic.

@packersfanforlife7903 4 года назад

@@dkupke very true. The most ironic thing about it all though was most British people also had barely any representation in Parliament too as at the time the MP's were only voted in by the rich folk. So over 3/4 of the British also lacked what the Colonists lacked. Just a nice Historical Fact.

@billyjohnson3674 6 лет назад

They showed the Boston Tea Party as loud and full of people surrounding the harbor watching the 50 "Native Americans" throwing the tea over. The event was actually pretty quiet and relaxed. The 50 men silently went down to the harbor, went to the ships, took any crew prisoner that were there, cut the lock off to the ships cargo hold, threw the tea overboard, replaced the lock, set the crew free, and moved out into the night. It was peaceful, quiet, and stealthy. I bet Boston's water supply tasted like tea for the whole Revolution.

@BobSacamano666 Год назад

If they were into drinking ocean water.

@TheCatheterCozy 5 месяцев назад

I just did this mission in Assassins Creed 3 😂

@TheDennys21 2 месяца назад

@@TheCatheterCozysame.

@ampellegrino7072 5 лет назад

Bruh you just saved me from my exam 😂😂😂

@ciara7474 3 года назад

Right lol

@onyour_marky 3 года назад

Lol

@sivaneswarypremnath9852 3 года назад

Sam here😂😅

@saachinsbajwa3326 3 года назад

Same

@doreenmahon7179 3 года назад

@Zoe Shewell no hes called sam

@MuradBeybalaev 4 года назад

"The Americans' beloved tea" must sound so alien to modern 'muricans.

@Bunniebunzerton 3 года назад

lol thats pretty accurate

@jamesd7495 3 года назад

Not in the south. We love tea down here lol

@MilwaukeeF40C 3 года назад

South biotch.

@ViperoK 3 года назад

@@jamesd7495 true sweet tea is a godsend

@Diesense 3 года назад

Is this what Americans are talking about when they say “are you still mad about the tea?” 🤔

@cdxii-zanemmv46 3 года назад

Yes I think

@SaxandRelax 3 года назад

Yup 🇺🇸

@ViperoK 3 года назад

yes

@BT-7274. 2 года назад

Yes

@KXYAA 3 года назад

2:27 *Bro why is nobody talking about that guy, I feel like he is trying to do a Tik Tok dance-*

@Im_CD13 3 года назад

to me it looks like hes doin a potty dance :P

@toulaykepri9103 3 года назад

i came to the comment section to see if anyone said anything lol

@purplebunny7175 2 месяца назад

😂😂😂

@TimeCenaPSW 4 года назад

Who else is here after Minneapolis riots?

@RobbieEctor 4 года назад

They literally fought over tea and can’t understand why we are fighting for lives. This is beyond me.

@gravesidepoet5405 4 года назад

Rainbow Rocket not even close to a comparison

@Cheyne_TetraMFG 4 года назад

Graveside Poet “No taxation without representation” and “We deserve to live without fear of death on a daily basis” are closer than you think

@finchborat 4 года назад

@@RobbieEctor The Boston Tea Party people targeted a company that was responsible for the unpopular tea tax. The rioters and looters targeted businesses that had nothing to do with Floyd's death.

@RobbieEctor 4 года назад

finchborat well obviously this was over 200 years ago. You missed the point of my argument. Tea is much more minuscule than actual lives yet this type of rebellion is celebrated and today we are condemned.

@hanzup4117 10 лет назад

The Americans also wanted to expand further west. But the British wouldn't allow it because they had a non aggression pact with the native Americans.

@packersfanforlife7903 4 года назад

Yeah that was on of the reasons. The Proclamation Line can be said it was the first signs of the Revolution as most of the Colonists ignored the line anyway and just moved West

@samsmith92samsmith 8 лет назад

Interesting how Tax in the United Kingdom was considerably higher than in the American colonies. And how the vast vast majority British taxpayers were not voters, thus did not elect representatives in the British Parliament either.

@MikeGreenwood51 6 лет назад

The British gave every possible concession to the colonists removing tax on everything except British Tea. In Britian taxes kept increasing. Brick tax, chimney tax, halvf tax, window tax. It was how terraced housing came in to being so people could share a wall of bricks and chimnies and divide the costs betweem them..

@benkenobi5128 Год назад

I'm surprised the British people didn't throw over the government at one point, but then again British people are much more sophisticated than there American counterparts...

@aspenwatson6169 2 года назад

Thank you so much! Always can count on TED-Ed with homework assignments.

@marimeow6 3 года назад

pov: you're in school and your teacher put this for class work.

@marimeow6 3 года назад

@Susan Solis Perez same I wish I can burn my school down

@supunipallemulle7740 2 года назад

am i weird to say that i searched this out of curiosity.

@marimeow6 2 года назад

@@supunipallemulle7740 ok

@sharpe22 5 лет назад

now i want to go to BOSTON, drink TEA, and have a PARTY. Thanks for this helps me finish my hmwk ;)

@mariellasalazar562 4 года назад

Jajajaja

@kianashinaimusic 3 года назад

At 2:30, Sam Adams legit just started dancing provocatively hoping that the townspeople would be swayed by his flowing movements and sassy energy. Even got some knee action up in there.

@dontex7 4 года назад

Now im free to drink my Lipton tea without throwing it in the sea....hey that rhymed lol😏😀😀👌

@stijnvandevyver7958 11 лет назад

Good timing. I just wanted to learn more about the boston tea party because i just completeed that part in AC 3.

@therankingworld7627 6 месяцев назад

wow, what you up to nowadays??

@_tideaina 3 года назад

When I was younger, I thought the Boston tea party was an actually tea party that held in Boston. Like a red carpet event for drinking tea

@navymirror_ 3 года назад

lmaooo me too

@charliebradlyn5313 2 года назад

Didn’t we all?

@georgecampbell9638 Год назад

Me too. But nope, they just threw the dang tea into the water

@adriaanbarnard7046 4 года назад

My son wants me to tell everyone that his birthday is December 16th, the day the Boston Tea Party took place.

@sonicexpert986 11 лет назад

He left out the part where Connor totally murdered like 100 British troops while the colonists destroyed tea.

@infraredshadows3119 9 лет назад

The video did not have enough Mountain Dew and Doritos in it Also needs more illuminati jokes

@TheDeclan900 9 лет назад

I bet you eat enough of them

@mohammeddehani8284 4 года назад

declanw900 epic roast

@mississippiball1003 4 года назад

Ah yes the Boston tea party My favorite part

@velelimaka9040 6 лет назад

wow American drinked tea ? I thought they only drinks soda which have a lot suger

@cheriomey 5 лет назад

Do you know what grammer is?

@grim_gravy 5 лет назад

@@cheriomey most people spell stuff wrong on the InTeRnEt so that it triggers people like you lol

@antidemonrat2489 5 лет назад

@@grim_gravy, chill out lol

@bh7090 5 лет назад

Starlight that’s incorrect grammar

@AlexBigShid 4 года назад

10/10 would google translate again.

@melodramaticly 2 года назад

Happy 248 anniversary of tea party December 16th 1773

@syb3n 3 года назад

I was at this party and I can say it was very nice😁I helped moving the tea

@satanicconservative1855 Год назад

Short and to the point. Thank you. I'm watching that 5 hour doc on the president's and needed this real quick.

@zion2957 3 года назад

I have to make a presentation about this for school tomorrow, just started :D

@tannerwhalen3933 4 года назад

Does that mean if we throw all existing candy in the world in an ocean, the kids that are 9 and younger will revolt?

@LancesArmorStriking 9 лет назад

Apparently Captain Kirk is narrating this story.

@spacedoubt15 8 лет назад

+LancesArmorStriking I was scrolling down ...looking for this comment.

@JonatasAdoM 7 лет назад

WOW you're right!

@unrescued 6 лет назад

hahaha glad I wasn’t the only one!

@MikeGreenwood51 5 лет назад

Listen to him after he's had a nice cuppa tea.

@fionagregory5334 3 года назад

It is not him

@Prelude610 11 лет назад

The role and influence of the East India company needs to be looked into more here. There are interesting parallels to current events.

@andins761 5 лет назад

2:27 ........ what is happening

@matheannetics9333 4 года назад

omg indeed 😹😹😹😹

@shanty138 4 года назад

Andin Schvaneveldt simultaneous seizures? 😂

@sllabkcus 4 года назад

@@shanty138 indeed

@shyguy7711 3 года назад

LOL

@youisstupid2586 4 года назад

2:28 he’s naynaying on the haters lol.

@tholluxthimp3144 4 года назад

Let me tell you, I screamed 💀

@stevegamingrocks100 2 года назад

"spill the tea, sis" - boston tea party

@plumpy_space_princess 4 года назад

I'm still confused, though 😔

@joeyysborntovlog6813 4 года назад

Same

@Whosbkp 3 года назад

same the narrators voice made me tired

@Happy-uy5wc 4 года назад

The secret of how Samuel Adams could be both at the town hall meeting and in the harbor, dressed as an Indian, tossing tea into the harbor, is that half the town was named Samuel Adam's at the time. It was a secret town joke to blame everything on Samuel Adams.

@RimaRimy 8 лет назад

That really helped a lot, thank you :)

@ramal5708 3 года назад

Tea was more popular than narcotics to smuggle back in the day

@ronruddick2972 6 лет назад

Im just sitting here comparing the value of the tea tax to modern sales tax, or the ridiculously high tax on tobacco and liquor.

@potatokiddo 2 года назад

1763: *tea* 2021: *coffee*

@ethancrawford3434 5 лет назад

xD wow And I thought fighting with my siblings over candy was bad!

@goldntlokwana4836 4 года назад

🤣

@frogizel2998 6 лет назад

Lack of amenity causes a rebellion. I learned this from Civilization 6.

@DisciplesOnCampus Год назад

Very helpful video, I finally understand what happened!

@jabbawoki2353 3 года назад

Britz had 3 quarters of India making it for them, so I don't think it really mattered, and India still do produce it, and britain is still one of the major consumers/buyers with fingers still in the scones...

@melanin4735 2 года назад

You missed the part with them throwing the tea overboard

@dkupke 9 лет назад

It kind of annoys me that so many modern Americans think our colonial ancestors revolted against the British crown because they're taxes were too high-because it is a load of bunk.

@dkupke 8 лет назад

+TheLilacWitch They're taxes were the lowest in the British Empire. The key grievance was those taxes being imposed without them having any say in the matter.

@ghosted9903 2 года назад

And this is why we drink coffee now

@akshaygupta6711 7 лет назад

Not all three ships reached Boston, just a ship named DARK MOUTH(342 Boxes) reached and behind Dark mouth were the other two ships.

@megaTRISMAN 9 лет назад

Great video! Just one minor annoyance.. The Ducth flag used is a VOC flag, which is a flag representing the Dutch colonies in the East-Indies. The Dutch colonies in America however, used the WIC flag. Other than that this was a great video! Love your work! :)

@officialegemen 2 года назад

Dedication to one’s rights is something to behold

@yanpinghuang608 9 лет назад

Thank you!

@airforce2175 6 лет назад

Thanks you a lot, I love this content.

@MsSuperKatz 2 года назад

Thanks for this! Now I can understand the Outlander episode I'm watching!

@epicawesome5872 4 года назад

Tea was only a little aspect in what triggered American revolution

@flyaway1 3 года назад

this video might have saved me and my history class grade so i thank you but those eyes though BWHAHHA

@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 8 лет назад

1:22Holland isn't a country now and it wasn't then. It was and is known as the kingdom of the Netherlands and Holland is just a region in the Netherlands.

@thehumanoddity 8 лет назад

What does that have to do with the video?

@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 8 лет назад

trevor bgs there was a spot where they said holland refering to the nation i should have put a time stamps will do that now

@McMuffin103 7 лет назад

Prince Imrahil No where does he say Holland is, or was, a nation.

@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 7 лет назад

McMuffin103 I put the timestamp of 1:22 for a reason

@jacksonthesyndicalist2771 7 лет назад

They fly the flag of the netherlands and say holland

@raygordonteacheschess5501 5 лет назад

Someone spilled the tea on this.

@danielledekker3843 6 лет назад

Thanks this video helped me a lot

@440mopar5 2 года назад

If they really knew who started the Boston Tea Party, They'd really be pissed 🤣🤣

@darklygrl 3 года назад

*I came here from Online School-*

@dmareonbuildsgg1451 3 года назад

Me to

@dinodurrp6120 3 года назад

Same

@Athrunwong 5 лет назад

* Sips tea angrily *

@SaintNicRants 11 лет назад

Boston Tea Party...still a better love story than Twilight

@LightForce-rw4kc 5 лет назад

I'm having tea while I watch this

@macflod 4 года назад

Wow!!! This is a great inspirational story, apart from the killings! I never heard this before! However it illustrates how the people had had enough!!! In Britain, this would never happen, deference is too widespread here! The people will do what their masters tell them. I admire how the french have national strikes and don’t put up with BS from their government! Its this attitude that gave rise to the united states independence and today their worship of freedom! However i do not think any of us are truly free.

@EzraMerr 2 года назад

Brits don't pay as much tax on CGT, import, duties, as much as Americans do right now lmao

@ChadyotheWallnut 7 лет назад

Flag of red-white-blue netherlands is the kingdom of the netherlands, VOC was made during the dutch republic, so the flag is orange-white-blue.

@sebastianamado8404 5 лет назад

Very clear!!

@MRTOWELRACK 10 лет назад

Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed, and Assassin's Creed. Did I forget anything? Nope. Okay then.

@jinryu8858 4 года назад

so that's the tea

@scribbledwords9956 3 года назад

*and now I see why in fifth grade I failed that test..* *when the question asked me what the Boston tea party was I said it was a tea party in Boston*

@rap-_-scal7132 3 года назад

Bruh I would've thought that if I didn't know what it was

@Xylophone08 3 года назад

this is just a book mark for me 1:34

@nicolerawson6483 4 года назад

Wow they really spilled the tea

@tusknour92 11 лет назад

I don't know if Arizona counts as actual tea but I drink about 20 cans a week.

@Willsturd 11 лет назад

Its weird, but a quick side note, that is why computer programs have a hard time understanding what the heck we are saying. When we talk, there are no spaces in between our words like there is in typing. I thought it was interesting because even though its weird for us that he is stopping randomly, a computer would love it.

@kiteman4348 3 года назад

I remember having this in school

@bouncingsockjr 11 лет назад

It makes me wonder what the British teach about the American revolution.

@Nemoticon 4 года назад

We don't.... why would we??? That's your history not ours. We already have enough history to learn, otherwise we'd never leave ihstory class!!!

@Udontkno7 4 года назад

@@Nemoticon I mean, we have to learn about the English Civil War in-depth for 2 weeks.

@nathan_scofield_ynwa 4 года назад

We dont

@whatif3271 4 года назад

@@Nemoticon i mean technically it's your history too. The American revolution would not exist without Britain being on the opposing side

@Nemoticon 4 года назад

@@whatif3271 No, because it changed nothing the Britain, we had colonies all over the world going through many changes. Ultimately it was between people in America who want to stay with the Brits and those who wanted to be indpendant, few Brits were actually involved. To the rest of us, its just a fottnote in history.

@shandarjan1656 2 года назад

Amazing.. read few pages and this 4mins video helped me.more

@kierasimpson3945 3 года назад

thank you. this is my presentation subject.

@mlgprincesspeach6328 6 лет назад

This will be perfect for my class

@krakrakrala 8 лет назад

What program did they use for the animation? Anyone knows?

@justingithu389 6 лет назад

When I had tea party I thought it was a party

@mlgprincesspeach6328 6 лет назад

Justin Githu lol no silly I was a fight

@fazenutellavlogs4502 7 лет назад

2:32 hes dancing

@matheannetics9333 4 года назад

I bet he is, and his audience seems ...disliking it 😿

@mrsicandy23 3 года назад

thanks for this vid

@zeddo-kun 6 лет назад

Ah, the things we do for a drink...

@DejuanJohn 3 года назад

All this over some damn tea 😂

@christopherwhitaker1615 2 года назад

The captain and all his crew were high on thai stick No wonder they couldn't sail the damn boat straight

@anguswolstenholme6915 3 года назад

Amazing video thanks

@Seabreeze34 3 года назад

Thank you

@dummydummy1493 3 года назад

*Britain, how tf did you lose, with one of the greatest militias, to a bunch of guys who were angry about the cost of a drink?*

@MustacheDLuffy 2 года назад

They want to make money £££

@wedgewizard5429 Год назад

The real lesson is you can't turn a harbour into a giant tea just by throwing boxes of tea at it. You would need a lot of tea.

@UltraAnimaniac101 4 года назад

People seriously trying to compare the riots of Michigan to the Boston Tea Party?

@acscissors1705 4 года назад

why not?

@UltraAnimaniac101 4 года назад

@@acscissors1705 Because the Michigan Riots are destroying property of people who are uninvolved with the matter that got them upset while the Bostan Tea Party kept their message cleary by ONLY throwing tea overboard.

@acscissors1705 4 года назад

@@UltraAnimaniac101 I see people love to leave out the event such as the Sons of Liberty and Boston Mob tar and feathering people and property you should reread your history of events leading up to the tea party.

@finchborat 4 года назад

@@UltraAnimaniac101 And the Boston Tea Party went after a company that was part of the reason for the unpopular tea tax. Btw, you're thinking of Minnesota. The incident wasn't in Michigan.

@Magentak 4 года назад

@@UltraAnimaniac101 If you know history, you would know that the tea at the port was also mostly bought by other innocent people. To revenge against the unfairness and brutality from Boston Massacre, they did damage properties that were not of the nation of Britain. Though, I do believe that violence is not the solution.

@Darticus42 11 лет назад

No, it was not just competition. The main goal (that they tried to conceal, but failed) was to rid of the illegal smuggling, in the process eliminating all other competition, which is "monopoly". Nearly every colonist was upset about this because they were being oppressed by that, and they did not want to pay taxes for the tea because they were not properly represented (I think there was only one representative in Parliament and he didn't have much power; it was just to get the colonists happy).