TAXES, TEA & TYRANNY IN BOSTON | History Traveler Episode 258
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- After the Boston Massacre (see the previous episode), tensions between the British army and the colonists of Boston continued to rise. All of that tension would come to a head in December of 1773 when a protest over a tax on tea resulted in over 300 chests of British tea being dumped into the harbor. In this episode, we're exploring where that tension boiled over at the Old South Meeting House & the approximate location where the famed Boston Tea Party took place.
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Please visit and do a history show on the battle of bunker hill.
Thank you.
One of the reasons I love living here in MA is that this state has done well preserving history. Still enjoy going to Boston just to venture the freedom trail from time to time. Another awesome video JD thank you very much!
It's too bad the people of MA today have totally forgotten and given up on fighting for liberty and freedom, in favor of "more government control" in just about every facet of our lives. If these people had been the Bostonians of 250 years ago, we would still be under Brittish rule today.
So, for someone traveling to Boston, what are your "must see" places?
@@RoyatAvalonFarms Perhaps you have forgotten WE have a GOVERNMENT and whether you feel less is better- remember too, WE are more now than when we started and more DIVERSE than when we started. There is no law to keep you here but by Heaven Don't Tread on Me!
@@seashepherds4959 having a government doesnt mean you quit fighting for and standing for liberty. The people of MA today wouldnt know know liberty if it smacked them in the face. They not only accept the govt we have now, but constantly advocate for MORE govt. Your ancestors who fought to create this country would be so disappointed in the people there now.
@@seashepherds4959 and pray do tell, where you think a man could go as far as another country where one could get "less government" and actually have liberty from government oppression?
What a great watch before going to work. So much history in Boston and almost all of it within walking distance. Walking the "Freedom Trail" is so much fun. Thanks for keeping American history alive, you do a much better job that many schools. Thanks for all your time and work.....
Pretty amazing place.
We. LOVE OUR COUSINS ACROSS THE POND 🇦🇨🇦🇽🇬🇬
@@deborahrunnells8222 And we love our cousins across the other side of the pond........
I can listen to you all day. I enjoy your history telling.
Appreciate that!
Boston be a crazy place to try and drive around. Thank you for making history come alive.
Ha! Yes it is. Lots of honking.
Amazing how driving - number of Autos - around Boston, Mass. has changed. I'm in my 70's.
Remember building Route 3 - Cape, Route 128 around Boston, Route 495 - No Traffic.
Early 1970's - After discharge from US Army, I drove a Cab - Remember Cabs? - I could make it from Saint Elizabeths Hospital Area - Brighton - through Brookline - Back Bay - West End - to South Boston in 20 to 25 minutes. Were called "Nickle Chasers" and that was the drop on the meter. I would hate to drive around Boston today. Live in the town where the Marathon starts.
Door-handle to door-handle, as a friend of mine described it!😊
The temperature was increasing a little bit more and a little bit more.... History always repeats itself.
The old south meeting house is impressive. I can just imagine how impressive it stood out in 1773. I always think of that old Disney movie Johnny Tremain where they marched out of the old south meeting house and to Griffins Wharf
I've actually never seen that. Need to try and find it.
@@TheHistoryUnderground It's a good movie, from the 50s. It's like the book. It talks about the Tea party, Lexington and Concord. Like always the book is way better lol. Esther Forbes wrote an autobiography too on Paul Revere, called Paul Revere and the World He Lived In. I highly recommend it to learn about Boston and the world events around him during that time.
I'm glad you're covering this period. I'm ashamed to admit my Revolutionary War knowledge is pretty bad, so much so that i forced myself to read a whole book on it several years ago. But many things are soon forgotten. Your videos will refresh me and hopefully more of the knowledge will stick..!
Thanks! The past few videos have been a little sluggish but I'm hoping that they pick up. Definitely an important era in our history that too few people know about.
@@TheHistoryUnderground I call it our first Civil War because so many Americans fought along side the British and against the British.
Kings Mountain was one of our first victories and it was made up almost 100% of Americans on either side. The Torres were led by a British officer named Ferguson. He declared that not even God could remove him from this mountain. He was sort of right. He is still buried there.
@@jamesholbrook7785 That's a cool fact that I'd never heard before. A battle in that war that was all colonial on colonial. Thanks for the share!
@@91Redmist I didn’t know it until I took a trip to South Carolina and saw Kings Mountain and the Cowpens.
Its not been covered well-if at all for the past 50 years in many public schools.
They didn’t cover much of the revolutionary war in high school. Liking this lesson 👍
Yeah, that's unfortunate. I'm hoping that people will be sharing these videos to help fill in the gaps.
My 10th great grandfather emigrated to Boston from Hillmorton, England in 1631 before finally settling in Ipswich, Mass. A fellow passenger with my 10th great grandfather, on the ship, was the Rev. Roger Williams and his family. I have found a lot of documentation from that time period and the things they all faced. Not being prepared for food shortages and native Indians becoming hostile was just part of the challenges. We visited the Old North Church and Paul Revere's home. Odd feeling when you see the old Boston tucked into the new Boston. I couldn't help but find how the church "box pews" must have been the first example of don't be sitting in my "bought and paid for seats". Probably not a much different than today where we sit in pretty much the same pew section week after week, thinking that's my bought and paid for seat ! Another great video.
From a place in NC that used to be the states capitol. Although Tryon palace burnt in the early 1900s, everything dates back to the 18th century. You need to come and visit. Lots of civil war history here as well. In front of the palace, there is still some original bricks used as the road.
Not to mention, it's where Pepsi was born. Known originally as "Brad's Drink".
This is American Revolution history. The Civil War documentaries are another series. Everyone obsessed with Civil War. People should know how our history began.
JD, I live 30 minutes away from the South Church. I feel ashamed but also blessed that you provide info/details that you know that I didn’t until now
Being a non-tea-drinking Brit I can wholeheartedly get behind the Patriots dumping the vile drink into the Harbour 🤣
Thank you, JD, for giving me a real life view of what I've seen on ACIII and Fallout 4.
A non-tea drinking Brit? I didn't even know such a thing existed.
@@TheHistoryUnderground oh but we do my friend... 3 years of drinking British Army issue "tea" destroyed what little taste I had for the stuff.
I'd much rather have a coffee with a wee dram of Jameson or Tullamore Dew Whiskey in it 🤣
@@GlasgowCeltic88 Yum that sounds good. I would like my coffee with some Bailey's but it's Irish cream.
@@GlasgowCeltic88i think our tea is better than yalls. Especially in the south we love sweet tea.
Thank you for another beautiful lession. My family came over on the MaryAnne from British hold Rev. Youngs was family and later fought the British. We were young and strong.
I love Boston and learning about the American Revolution. Outstanding video. Look forward to watching more. Thank you
I love that city! I definitely feel like this is a forgotten war, yet I find it to be the most fascinating. Thank you for all you to to keep us all educated and interested!
Great job JD as always. Thanks for taking us along.👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks!
OK, so while watching your videos on the American Revolution, in particular the trips to Concord and Lexington. I realized that I had never seen any photos, or videos of these places in our history. I had seen the drawings of the event in school books and art painted of it, but never had seen it at all. While following your videos on the subject and being 60 years old, I felt transported to the time and the stories you told. I know you probably have little time to read these comments, but its more for the enjoyment of your patrons who visit and watch your clips. You have become one of my favorite TH-camrs! bravo!
Thank you so much for imparting this knowledge for us. I absorb it easier than reading a history book.
Thanks! Glad that you're enjoying the content.
Boston is so full of history. I’ve been lucky enough to live in New England and get to enjoy it. I’m so glad you are doing these videos so others get to see what I have been able see and enjoy my whole life. 👍😁
Definitely an area rich in history. Love it over there.
@@TheHistoryUnderground I glad you enjoyed it. It’s so full of history here that you could spend months here and never get to see it all. 👍😁
Hey KD. Another great video. Just now got the chance to watch. Boston was so important in our becoming an independent nation. So much history. Keep them videos coming
Agreed. Thanks!
Many, many years ago I had a teacher who made us memorize the three prong attack the British had planned to stop the revolt. British General Ledger was coming in from the west to Albany NY but was stopped in Oriskaney (NY). Burgoyne was coming south from Ticonderoga to Albany but got stopped at Battle of Saratoga. General Gage was headed North from New York City to Albany but got stopped near Kingston by chains across the Hudson River. Also, The Battle of Bennington happened after the Battle of Saratoga. Forgive me if I have made any mistakes. Did not know about the Old South Meeting House being used as a riding school. Thanks for the lesson.
Definitely do the Boston tea Harbor tour. The actors are top notch and really make the history of that particular protest come alive. the Holograms are wonderful and seeing the only surviving Tea crate and unused vial of
tea is truly fascinating!!
Enjoying this series JD. When you consider the odds against the colonist it is quite fascinating the fortitude they had to rebel.
I live on the west coast and don't do much traveling but one of my bucket lists is to visit Fenway Park and have been so afraid that they would tear it down or make drastic changes to it but hasn't happened as of yet so it's still a possibility but yeah through all of my years the Boston Tea Party has always interest me for some reason maybe just because I have always been a fan of Boston but again never have had the honor and opportunity to visit. Hopefully someday. Thanks again for another great vid. Always enjoy your videos.
Great Job JD! Thank you for the History Education leading up to the Revolutionary War. Thank you for all you do!
Thanks!
Love your videos. I work around the corner from the meeting house. cool to see this video. There's a great book called "Red Dawn at Lexington" which speaks alot about what Boston was like at that period of time. Apparently every year on "Guy Fawks Day" people from the North and South ends of Boston would drink and celebrate and parade through the city. Frequently the groups ran into one another and riots would break out. My dirty old Boston. My family came here from England in 1635. Great part of the country.
Bruton Parish Church in Colonial Williamsburg also has box pews. Well worth a visit if you need to scratch the revolutionary itch. Great video JD.
Wow, awesome video. Several years ago I took a trip to Boston. It was definitely one of my most favorite trips. I walked the freedom trail, saw Paul Revere's house and the Old North Church. And while there I saw the boxed pews and saw where you could rent a heated brick to keep warm in the winter.. craziness but really cool.
Really enjoying this adventure your taking us on JD. I haven't seen any of these buildings or site's before. Looking forward to more.
Thanks!
I use to work at the intercontinental hotel right by the Boston tea party museum and on my lunches I'd walk around that area to take in the history, loved it
Great job JD! I'm so glad you are covering this time period and look forward to future videos of it!
Thanks! The past few have been a bit sluggish. Hoping that people share these. Definitely an important part of our history.
This channel is proof education can be fun and entertaining.
Thanks! Appreciate that.
@@TheHistoryUnderground I love your channel and look forward to how you explore the world. I wish I could meet you. If you ever come to Sacramento I would love to point you in the right directions. Keep doing the good work you are doing JD. Much love.
Fascinating series you’re doing good job!
Appreciate that! Got some more to come.
Outstanding work JD. Thank's for teaching this in such detail. 👍 👍 👍
My pleasure!
Awesome as always - didn't have time to make it to the meeting house when I was there, but I did visit the harbor (and climb the Bunker Hill monument, among other things ). My humble suggestion for a future video - Jamestown. I was there many many years ago, and there wasn't much there, interesting but not much to really see. When I went back (only) many years ago, they had unearthed far more and actually had the layout of the settlement. Super cool.
My grandfather Joseph Alden fought in American revolution. He was award a medal.
Great Video love the History of the building and the part it played in shaping this Nation Thank you JD
Really interesting video, as always !
Thank you !
Can’t wait to see more videos about US Revolution !
Awesome video J.W .I always learn something interesting watching your videos. Thank you .
Thanks! Glad to hear it.
I’m so happy to finally come across this video on this channel! Im from the Boston area! I hope to see a video with Concord and Lexington. Patriots Day weekend is the time to go! All the re-enactments are amazing. Love the channel bro!
Glad you are finally tackling the Revolutionary War! You fo such great work!
So good, great job! I can't wait to see more!
Thanks!
I just absolutely love Boston, especially for all of the history ... very interesting stuff. Thanks for making this video, very interesting stuff.
Im learning so much and to see the locations and buildings too!! Another great series JD!! You do not disappoint Thank YOU for taking us along 👏🏻👏🏻🥳😂💖🫶🏼
So in December of 1773, Americans held a party at Griffin's Wharf in downtown Boston, to celebrate their discovery of how to make decaffeinated tea. I wonder if they served the drink nice & hot to their Tory friends?
Ha!
Since you just did a video on JFK, the house Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy grew up in is like a block away from the Paul Revere house and JFK's childhood home is in Brookline.
Gonna watch now. After 4 minutes. I already know it’s going to be very very interesting. Keep em coming JD. Anything coming up about the history of the American natives?
Thanks! I don't have any plans for Native American content in the immediate future but you never know what may come up.
@@TheHistoryUnderground ok. Too bad. Maybe in the future. We will wait and see 😁
Finally revolutionary war content! 🎉
Finally! Got some more on the way.
You bring to life this era!
Thanks for this coverage. The tea party was yet another preparation toward, and could arguably be included in the American Revolution. Many a series of events lead up to April 19, 1775.
Thank you JD. Nice work 👍🏼😎
Great video. I sure hope you're planning to also cover Lexington and Concord too...
On the way :)
We need the Sons of Liberty today !!!
The SoL would be labeled as criminals and thrown in jail. The judicial system in the Boston Area was definitely lenient.
Also the box pews are around in Christ Church in Philadelphia- still have the ones rented out by George Washington, Ben Franklin, and others!!
I don’t know a lot about the revolutionary war, but I love the video game Fallout 4, which is set in Boston and the surrounding areas. Seeing all these things is amazing. They really included so much detail in the game. Awesome video.
Thank you for your history lessons. I try to find them all.
So, do the British not have anyone who is at these meetings at the time? I feel like they would have done something from suspecting any sort of revolutionary talk at these meetings.
Another great video JD! Always found it interesting that they dressed as Native Americans because at the time they represented “freedom” or “independence”
Yeah, I've found that interesting as well.
Blame it on the indig.
@@Chiller01 - That was not the intent.
@@TheHistoryUnderground Ah a mild rebuke……. but it got me to wondering. First place I went was the Boston Tea Party Historical Society which has an article that makes it clear that the participants had the afternoon to create their disguises and the Mohawk disguises they created were intentional. A second article points out that the Mohawk disguise was used more than once by the Sons of Liberty. The first use of the Mohawk disguise was the burning of the British ship Gaspee. So what I’m reading indicates the Indian costumes were more than just something to disguise the participants identities, though that was an important function. The participants rubbed their faces with coal dust and ochre pigment and said that they were unidentifiable even to one another except by their voices. We’re the disguises meant to shift blame to the Mohawk people? Tim Giago in Native Sun News says the Mohawk had every right to fear they would be blamed for the incident. A group of converted Christian natives had recently been herded into a church by a vigilante group of white colonists and the church set alight. The innocent natives were burned to death in retaliation for a raid perpetrated by an entirely different native band. So where am I at on this? Well I’m still reading some first hand accounts and there ‘s a book, Playing Indian by Philip Deloria, that is quoted multiple times so I’ll search for that. At present I don’t think the colonists meant to implicate the Mohawk Nation but their choice of disguise was more purposeful than just concealing their identity. Would the Mohawk rather they choose a different disguise? I’m thinking yes.
@@Chiller01 Their disguises were symbolic and were somewhat meant to hid their identity but nobody was actually thinking Native Americans did this.
Loving this series!
Thanks! Glad that you're enjoying it!
Great presentation! Thanks
Thanks!
Awesome videos, keep the revolutionary war videos coming!
I really appreciate this video when the ones you do in Philadelphia and in Pennsylvania. Having lived in Pennsylvania and my family has been here since 1639, revolution I guess is in my blood! It is always been one of my favorite areas in history to study. With regard to the pews in the church, it probably is a carryover from Great Britain the renting of the pews. Many of the wealthier people in Great Britain could buy their pews and pass them on his personal property to whomever they wished. Mostly it was a family parish where everyone including me Gentry often buried their family members who were deceased. It was a great thing! I wish now that we had something similar, where people could say my grandmother intended that church and I attend that church and I remember my grandmother telling me.. it is a shame but that has become something of anachronism. I am however appalled and disgusted with the British troops who would turn that beautiful building a house of God consecrated to glorify God and spread the gospel into a riding Hall. That is nearly as blasphemous as you can get! If I were to go to Great Britain, I would not in any way assume to worry about anything in the church other than worship. If you want respect you must give respect! Thank you JD
Word to the thoughtful...
How do you think people in rural America feel when a legislative and executive body hundreds if not thousands of miles away re-interpret constitutional authority so that a bartender in NYC has authority over what a man can hunt, fish, or mine in Alaska?
The delineation of states' rights v. Federal authority was not a useless anachronism, it was much intended in as written to prevent a future "tea party" or taxation without representation.
Fabulous effort. Thank you Lord for coffee, perish the thought this would happen again.
Excellent job JD, Breeds Hill btw.
Curious did you go anywhere else In MA? You mentioned something during your visit to the Punchbowl IRT remains being identified, the answer “may” lie just to the south on Cape Cod.
I look forward to your videos, Thankyou
Just found out after some digging into my genealogy that I’m a descendent of Richard Penhollow who was reportedly one of the disguised men at the Boston tea party.
Wow!
Thank you for another great video!! 👍🏻😊
Thankfully they preserved the area cause that's really the only part of Boston that really has anything to do with old Boston. Side note, my favorite part about that area is the two bars across the street from each other that both claim to be the oldest bars in Boston.
Awesome presentation!
I love how you teach history in such a visual, on-site format. It reminds me of my favorite teacher ever. Ms. Janet Hooper taught my AP US History class my junior year (1987) at Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo, CA. She had travelled throughout the US with slide film in her 35 mm camera, to nearly every site we would discuss in her lectures. As Ms. Hooper taught, she would have a slideshow going. The visual references with the lecture made it meaningful and easier to visualize and remember. She made me LOVE history. You remind me of her in the same way. Thank you for all of your hard work. I TOTALLY get why Jocko is also a supporter of yours. 👍🏽❤️
Thanks!!!
good video would love to see one on little big horn maybe the fights out there
the first shots are not at lexington and concord. the first deaths are. the first shots are fired during a different raid on the north shore. also, you have to tell the story of the powder alarm. it’s the search for powder in medford (now powder house sq somerville) that caused so much confusion among the militias that they decided they needed a more organized way to remain ready to respond. that process was the Minutemen plan. And that is why the amazing militia response is possible in April 1775. bonus points if during your travels you find the grave of james miller. one of my fav patriots of april 1775
"Beantown Pub- the only place in the world that you can have a cold Sam Adams while looking at a cold Sam Adams!"
(Beantown Pub is right across from the Old Granary Burial Ground where Sam Adams is interred!)
Ha!
Fine job, J.D. red-blooded.
JD Rick Atkinson has a fairly new book The British Are Coming! I think it is very well done, it is the first of a trilogy hope you can have the time to read up on Boston's story
Excellent book. Can’t wait for the other two.
Did you get to the Tea Party Museum behind you in the ending of this video? They do an awesome job of telling the story with live actors playing the actual people who they each do extensive study on.
Thank You JD for another great video.
Great stuff JD! Bunker Hill? Concord and Lexington next?
Got some Lexington and Concord stuff on the way. Gonna save Bunker Hill for a future project.
Great timing. It was the 250th celebration of the Tea Time when they threw shit into the harbor.
Those boxed pews are very New England style. They cut the cold drafts from one's feet and legs
I've been in a few Presbyterian churches in Northern Ireland which aren't too dissimilar to this one. And Anglican churches in England full of box pews.
I love history, guess you could call me a "history nut" .I have always told my kids and grandkids about things that happened on certain days. Kids and grandkids kids are all grown, so now I tell my co-workers. I would have loved to have been a history teacher, but they wanted me to do algebra and I could not get the hang of it, so after 2 semesters of college I called it quits. I'm 76 now and work at Taco Bell in the town I live in.
The pews look a lot like the ones you get in a lot of English churches. My village church has the same, although in dark brown.
Thanks I really enjoyed it
Really interesting. My mothers family has a long history of non conformist worship here in the UK and my 4th Gt Grandfather was one of the first breakaway ministers who founded a non conformist Chapel in the early 1770s. My cousin is a Baptist minister and his chapel is called "Meeting Hill"! I have been in a few of these chapels or meeting houses and the design is very similar to the Boston Meeting house although that one is naturally much larger than the chapels in the small towns in England. They have the box pews, benches and gallery seating with the pillars you see in Boston. Our parish churchs (church of England) have box pews with little doors too. Again the amount you gave to the parish church designated how close to the alter you were! It may be that the colonists copied the meeting house design from the British chapels with their own twists to the building.
The Regency Britts were not pleasant lot were they! Don't blame the colonists wanting out!
Wow. Boston Boy who had to be reminded of how the British desecrated the Old Meeting House/Church by the Dragoons who used the place for a riding school. The Congregationalist/Puritans ran New England, and the Anglicans (George Washington) ran the southern Colonies through their churches. Too bad that there is not a museum/room with a topical presentation of the original Boston showing Beacon Hill with the original Beacon to mark Boston. There are drawings made by British Naval Officers and Artists (Later) that show "Tri Mount" - original name - where the height was reduced in 1807 - 1811 from 138 Ft. to 80 Ft. filling in Mill Pond & the Shoreline increasing Boston's Land Mass by 150%. Shame there isn't something like an exhibit museum - Computer Generated. Thanks JD for the Video.
I have a 1930s book on the revolution. Cool to see the places as they are now. Something else, I spoke to an American once who told that the US economy got its funding in part from a loan. A loan obtained by Benjamin Franklin (?) from Dutch or Belgian mercants. Anybody here who knows more avout that?
Dutch were very prosperous bankers that would loan money to businesses and nobilities/countries. No doubt Franklin was involved. I think Adams went to the Dutch as well.
Thank you.
Thank you for watching.
Legit a 2 minute walk from my office
Hopefully you were able to stop by the Bull and Finch pub while you were there. It’s been several years since I was there, not sure if it’s even in business anymore.
4 you local smokels... for Boston they used to have the Boston Tea Party ---local place 2 party.
I was born in Edenton North Carolina. A lot of historical things their. Blackbeard hid his ship around the corner and used a small boat to go to shore. Where he stayed in a big mansion. You used to be able to tour the area. Also there are some cannons and cannon balls at the water called the green. By there on a brought iron fence surrounded a house I think call the cupola house I have to check the spelling on that but on the fence was a tea pot called the Boston tea pot.
I forgot to say the tea pot was turquoise. Sorry the delete & edit button for some reason isn’t working
This is the ax that Washington used to chop down the cherry tree. It’s had 3 new handles and 4 new heads, but it’s the ax George Washington used!
Love your channel❤
Superb👍🏻
Thanks!
Really interesting, thanks
Great clip thanks!!!
Those box pews are a catch-22. You want to be close enough to show you’re a good standing citizen who supports the church financially, but not so close that it’s obvious to the preacher when you inevitably headbob during the sermon.
Thanks...fantastic