What does the Tea Act mean?

Answer 1

The Tea Act was when the British put taxes on the tea and the colonists got mad and dumped the tea in the Boston Harbor also known as the Boston Tea Party.

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Answer 2

it is a mistake to think that the Tea Act, 10th May 1773 was passed to raise revenue in American colonies. It was supposed to help the East Indian Company which was burdened with a considerble dept of un- sold tea. The tea was to be shipped to the colonies and sold at bargain prices and so undercut the prices charged by local merchants. The British ships were either turned back or the contents thrown into Boston Harbour

Answer 3

We were always taught in school, it was to pay for the war debt of The Seven Years War, known in America as the Seven Years War. The problem lay in that Americans were not merely British subjects, but British themselves, with a right, as British, to representation in a parliament, by which means alone British people in those days were taxed, apart from historic manorial feudal dues. They had this representation in local colonial parliaments--similar to the Welsh, Northern Irish, and Sdottish assemblies today--but had no elections to the national parliament seated in London. The national parliament in London bipassed the colonial parliaments and laid this tax directly, and unconstitutionally, on British citizens living in that part of what was Britain, the nation, known as America, without granting representation in the national parliament. That there was an issue implies that taxes had not been done before in this way in America. If this is not the tax being refered to by "the tea act," then please erase this! Otherwise, this, in America, is what has been taught in the schools, and is a somewhat valid answer. But i noticed there are a bunch of similar questions with well written looking answers that younshould look at for another perspective.

Answer 4

it lowered the price of tea

It allowed the shipment of tea directly to the colonies.

Answer 5

Colonists could only buy tea from England, and when they did, they had to pay and extra tax on it.

Answer 6

Parliament kept the tea tax to show that it still had the right to tax the colonists, but they repealed all the others.

Answer 7

The most famous thing that happened after the Tea Act was passed is the Boston Tea Party. This was when the residents of Boston revolted by pouring tea into the harbor.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

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