The Tea Act maintained the Townshend tariffs. it was an attempt to save the East India Tea company.
It allowed the British East India Company to monopolize the selling of tea in the North American colonies.
the tea act allowed the east india trading co (a british company) to have a tax break on selling tea but no tax break for the american merchants selling tea
then tea act made colonial citizens mad and they trashed a ship full of tea and the British closed the port until the people would pay. this helped start the revolutionary war.
Hoping to help the British East Indian company out of it's financial problems, Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773.
The tea act in america. It made colonists to pay tax on tea and only buy tea from east india company otherwise the company was going to be bankrupt.
The East India Tea Company was the only legal source of tea in the colonies.
The colonist and the East India Tea Company were the main character in the Tea Act
The Tea Act.
East India Company
The Tea Act maintained the Townshend tariffs. it was an attempt to save the East India Tea company.
the tea act
tea act
The Tea Act was a British legislation that granted a monopoly on tea to the East India Company in the American colonies. Parliament passed the Taxation of Colonies Act 1778 which repealed the Tea Act.
The Tea Act.
The Tea Act
The colonial boycott of tea seriously hurt the company!