1. Why does Adams call the Boston Tea Party uprising a "magnificent movement"? 2. How does he see the two sides in the uprising? 3. Why does Adams argue that there was "no other alternative" to dumping the tea into the harbor? 4. What retaliation from the British government does Adams fear? Do you think modern-day U. S. Protesters fear government backlash? Explain. 5. Based on the Upfront article and Adams's diary entry, what do you think Adams might say about the long history of protests in this country?

Our long history of protest movements dates to Colonial America and the Boston Tea Party of Dec. 16, 1773. Lacking a representative in Parliament, American colonists were fed up with taxation from the mother country, such as the hefty tax on imported tea. To show their anger, colonists rallied and dumped three shiploads of British tea into Boston Harbor. Below is an excerpt from a diary entry about the famous protest penned by John Adams, who soon became one of America's Founding Fathers. Read it along with the Upfront article on the history of protests in America, then answer the questions at the bottom of the page.

From the Diary of John Adams

December 17, 1773

Last Night 3 Cargoes of Bohea Tea were emptied into the Sea. This Morning a Man of War sails.

This is the most magnificent Movement of all. There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity, in this last Effort of the Patriots, that I greatly admire. The People should never rise, without doing something to be remembered--something notable And striking. This Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences, and so lasting, that I cant but consider it as an Epocha in History

The malicious Pleasure with which Hutchinson the Governor, the Consignees of the Tea, and the officers of the Customs, have stood and looked upon the distresses of the People, and their Struggles to get the Tea back to London, and at last the destruction of it, is amazing. Tis hard to believe Persons so hardened and abandoned.

Explanation:

it's like watching a fable, it's not really about the animals but rather it has a meaning that is understood by us and that is implicit, not explicitly said. implicit ideas are common and are used in almost all works of art, from writing to painting to sculpting.