Andrew Shpyrko A5 Mr. Sunderland History Fair Process Paper Boston Tea Party For my website project, I selected the Boston Tea Party as a topic. One of the mostinteresting points of history was the birth of the American nation, of course, after gainingindependence from Britain. The Tea Party was among the key factors to America’s birth, plus the event itself, in which tea was dumped as protest, is fascinating.At the beginning of my research journey, I found it best to simply wrap my headaround the fundamentals of my topic. I went to the library and took a book called “HowThe Boston Tea Party Sparked A Revolution”. In addition, I went to the Gale AmericanHistory database and found some primary sources that contained first-hand descriptions of the events. The goal was to collect some basic evidence for the entire argument and have asolid understanding of the Boston Tea Party. However, an issue came up with one of the primary sources. After reading it and trying to digest it, it ended up being too difficult tounderstand. The words and style of language written by the author of the primary source,Ann Hulton, from back a few centuries ago, was too fancy and hard to read. I ended upsubstituting this primary source with a more easy-to-understand primary source. I tried tofind some scholarly journals afterwards. The purpose of these was to narrow my topicdown into the economics aspect. After searching, I didn’t find any. I ended up finding a brief one, but it didn’t fulfill my goal. I then found some other strong sources, includingone that gave a general description, one that was from a newspaper, and one that was aletter. These were wonderful, but to achieve my goal of learning about the economics, Iturned to the book that was my first original source. This source is the most-detailed on thetopic. In fact, it is probably my best source. The sources that I had recently found would be better suited to supplement this source. I started to sculpt my argument afterwards.I made the decision to work alone on this project for the sake of organization, timeand stress. This is a long, complicated project with many components and tasks. Workingwith someone else would be complete havoc trying to communicate with him or her andsplit responsibilities fairly. Handling these things on my own is simpler to do.The Boston Tea Party was an illustration of a lose-lose situation caused by themercantilist theory. England, on one hand, is trying to impose taxes on the colonies, as wellas other controlling demands, despite that the colonies are an ocean away. The colonies, onthe other hand, fail at boycotting, since they destroy and waste valuable tea that they drink.In addition, the colonies ought to have taxed their own products, instead of foreign products. In other words, “taxation without representation” is important. Also, the BostonTea Party came to symbolize the forming of the American nation by breaking from tyrannic Britain.