Tea Trade, Consumption, and the Republican Paradox in Prerevolutionary Philadelphia

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On September 5, 1774, the first US Congress organized a meeting in Philadelphia to consider the British government's trade restrictions and responses to representative government response after the Boston Tea party's attack. 56 representatives from 12 colonies came to Philadelphia, including John Adams, cousin Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Roger Sherman, John Jay, John Dickinson and Richard Henry Lee. George Washington. After about 7 weeks of discussion, at the Philadelphia conference, the organization agreed to boycott British goods in the colony as a sign of protest, as detailed in the "Constitution". If "intolerance" is not abolished, "article" also requires export to the UK at the end of the following year.

By 1720, tea trade concentrated in New York, Boston, Philadelphia. However, colonial people expressed dissatisfaction with the strict tax imposed on tea by the UK. Their indignation broke out when they purchased smuggled tea blatantly when the Boston people dressed as Indians in December 1767 and threw hundreds of pounds of British tea into the harbor. These events declined historically as a Boston Tea Party and contributed to the American Revolution. In the early 20th century, Americans invented iced tea. This is a popular summer drink now. At about the same time, New Yorker named Thomas Sullivan first proposed a very practical tea bag concept. Today, a health - conscious American, tea is enjoying the resurrection of people, but the main American coffee is secondary.