The Boston Tea Party is also important because of both the British and American responses to the actions that followed the tea party. The British were furious with the actions of the colonists and needed to impose a “punishment”? for their rebellion. This came in the form of the Intolerable Acts.
By crossing Georgia virtually unopposed , they had demonstrated that the confederacy was dying on its feet . So South Carolina was the state that had started the whole war , and Sherman was keen to start punitive raids on South Carolina .
Because popular sovereignty was well supported because it allowed the local citizens of a territory to decide if slavery was to be allowed or illegal. Stephen A. Douglas pushed for popular sovereignty during the 1840's.
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