VIEWPOINT | We must be good stewards of our American heritage begun by the Declaration
Guest column by Tesa Schwans and Joy Hohn
The frustration in Great Britain’s 13 American colonies had been building for years over taxation without representation in British Parliament on imported goods such as sugar and tea. Due to unrest and growing tensions, it boiled over on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers fired into a mob, which became known as the Boston Massacre.
Later, on Dec. 16, 1770, the British tea was dumped into Boston Harbor. The British Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party with harsh laws, closed the port in Boston and reduced self-government with the British-led “Intolerable Acts.”
