"The Many Myths of the Boston Tea Party" Topic
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| Tango01 | 12 Mar 2026 2:05 p.m. PST |
"…Consider, for instance, the claim that the Tea Party was a revolt against higher taxes on tea. In truth, the protest centered on the Tea Act, a corporate tax break passed by the British Parliament that actually lowered the price of tea for American colonists. The real underlying issue, says Benjamin L. Carp, author of Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America, was the possibility that this price cut would "seduce the colonists … into buying taxed tea, which would give up the principle of no taxation without representation."
Nathaniel Sheidley, head of Revolutionary Spaces, a nonprofit that oversees two colonial sites in Boston, isn't surprised that modern Americans misremember their nation's founding history. "We constructed the story [of the Tea Party] in order to serve the needs of a later time," he explains, creating "a shared memory that could fill a space of national identity." During the 19th and 20th centuries, Americans similarly mythologized events like the first Thanksgiving, the arrival of the Pilgrims and the midnight ride of Paul Revere…"
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Shagnasty  | 12 Mar 2026 6:01 p.m. PST |
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 John the OFM  | 12 Mar 2026 8:41 p.m. PST |
Johnnie Tremaine had a very cute girlfriend in the Disney movie.
Therefore I support the Boston Tea Party for that reason, and no other.
Look at my taxes WITH REPRESENTATION! So I'll settle with cute girlfriends. |
| John the OFM | 12 Mar 2026 8:48 p.m. PST |
In the tv movie April Morning, Adam Cooper also had a very cute girlfriend. Robert Urich smiles when she embraces him at the end, because he knows that Adam is a fine young man. So, this is the main myth. That all young men in 1775 Boston had cute girlfriends. |
 20thmaine | 13 Mar 2026 3:01 a.m. PST |
Can you prove that is a myth though? |
| Tgerritsen | 13 Mar 2026 7:54 a.m. PST |
I think you stumbled on the real reason for the tea party! They had plenty of tea, but no cute girlfriends to have it with. It was really a revolt over frustration due to the lack of cute girlfriends. Later movies created the myth of cute girlfriends to hide the truth! |
| 20thmaine | 13 Mar 2026 11:46 a.m. PST |
Now that sounds very likely! |
| Tango01 | 13 Mar 2026 5:21 p.m. PST |
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