How to treat this behavior? We look at this problem from different angles in Britain and America.
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The first is why Britain imposed heavy taxes on North American colonies. On the one hand, as we all know, Britain suffered heavy losses and increased its financial burden in the seven-year war with France for colonies, so it had to change its attitude towards the colonies in North America and impose heavy taxes on the colonies to ease the financial pressure.
On the other hand, although North America exists as a British colony, due to its unique geographical location, the unique religious identity of Puritans and the characteristics of political autonomy, the colonial people not only identify themselves as subjects of the British Empire, but also consider themselves Americans. This dual identity consciousness leads to centrifugal force between North America and Britain.
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In the course of the Anglo-French War, many colonial people also participated in the war, and many talented leaders emerged, which made this centrifugal force more serious. In order to prevent the spread of this centrifugal force, the British Empire naturally strengthened its control over the North American colonies, and levying heavy taxes was one of the means.
So how do the colonial people view this incident? The colonial people's view of these high-handed policies is that their inherent freedom rights have been violated. They put forward the slogan of "no taxation without representation", which raised the heavy tax policy against the British government to the height of defending freedom, which is of course related to the democratic and free atmosphere formed in the long-term autonomy of North American colonies.
In North American colonies, two-thirds of white adult males have the right to vote, and the parliament composed of local elites sometimes plays a more important role in colonial life than the British governor, and has a high degree of civil autonomy, which is also the fundamental reason for the constant conflict between the suzerain and the colonial people.
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Therefore, in the face of the high-pressure policy of the suzerain, the colonial people did not choose to accept it, but took the means of resistance. The Boston Tea Party incident is a signal to express their attitude, because they are dissatisfied with the fact that Britain allowed the East India Company to dump tea duty-free in North America, and local tea merchants dumped all the tea from Boston merchant ships into the sea, which had a far-reaching impact on American history.
In short, no matter from which country's point of view, this event is a very important link in world history. After that, Lexington fired the first shot of the war against Britain, and the North American independence movement was officially launched, which changed the course of world history.