Name: TED-Ed】波士頓茶黨背後的故事--本-拉巴里。 (【TED-Ed】The story behind the Boston Tea Party - Ben Labaree)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:43:28.000Z
Duration: 3 min 48 s

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You've probably heard of the Boston Tea Party,

something about a bunch of angry colonists

and the grassroots origins of the American Revolution.

The first thing you need to know about tea in the 1700's

首先  你必須了解  茶葉在18世紀所扮演的角色

在英格蘭 每個男人、女人及小孩

consumed almost 300 cups of this stuff every year.

And, since the English colonized America,

So, when Britain wanted to increase taxes

mostly because they had no say in tax decisions

that they were not subject to taxes imposed by legislature

Since the east coast of America is hundreds of miles long

畢竟美國東岸離英國幾百英里遠

about 3/4 of the tea Americans were drinking

did have the authority to tax the colonists,

especially after Britain went deeply into debt

特別是英法七年戰爭後 英國面臨巨債

fighting the French in the Seven Years' War.

英國更是變本加厲地向美國徵稅

and in 1767 imposed new taxes on a variety of imports,

在1767年  英國在美國新增各種税

They boycotted the importation of tea from Britain,

After a new bunch of British customs commissioners

cried to London for troops to help with tax enforcement,

that the Red Coats fired on a mob in Boston,

in what was soon called the Boston Massacre.

Now the East India Company would sell the surplus tea

directly through hand-picked consignees in America.

making British tea competitive with the smuggled variety

But the colonists saw through the British ploy

Now it's a cold and rainy December 16, 1773.

waiting to hear whether new shipments of tea

When the captain of one of those ships reported

that he could not leave with his cargo on board,

"This meeting can do no more to save the country!"

「這個集會已經無法拯救這個國家了!」

Cries of "Boston Harbor a teapot tonight!"

「今晚波士顿港要變成茶壺了!」

some apparently dressed as Native Americans,

An infuriated British government responsded

with the so-called Coercive Acts of 1774,

closed the port of Boston until the locals compensated

宣布關閉波士頓港 直到當地居民

how best to respond to continued British oppression.

This first Continental Congress supported destruction of the tea,

The Boston Tea Party began a chain reaction

波士頓茶黨事件帶來的連鎖效應

after which the new nature was free to drink its tea,

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TED-Ed】波士頓茶黨背後的故事--本-拉巴里。 (【TED-Ed】The story behind the Boston Tea Party - Ben Labaree)

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