they dumped the tea in the river and boycotted, then war happened
Boycotted it
The Boston Tea Party and the colonists boycotted tea and angry mobs broke out resisting the act.
Colonial merchants immediately called for a new boycott of British goods.
Navigation acts, taxation acts (stamp act, tea act) , decloratory acts,
The Sugar Act was enacted in order to prevent smuggling in the colonies. The British wanted the colonies to purchase goods only from Britain. The Tea Act was a lower in prices of tea from the British East India Company. the British enacted the Tea Act because their tea was too expensive and they couldn't sell. With a lower price, colonists began to buy the British tea. Colonial merchants were angry because their tea wouldn't sell to the colonists since the British tea had a lowered price. The Tea Act led to the Boston Tea Party where colonial merchants protested about British tea and threw crates of them into Boston harbor.
tea merchants
Boston tea party
The Tea Act.
It was a big deal, and that's when they started thinking that they would either need some changes or they should have a revolution.
The colonial reaction to the sugar act was smuggling sugar and molasses.
Boycotted it
The Tea Act.
The colonial boycott of tea seriously hurt the company!
they made plastics
Colonial tea merchants had more reason to resist the tea act. The new law allowed the East Indian company to sell tea directly to the colonial shopkeepers at lower prices than the merchants, without being taxed, and the merchants lost a lot of money.
The Boston Tea Party and the colonists boycotted tea and angry mobs broke out resisting the act.
Colonial merchants immediately called for a new boycott of British goods.