The boston tea party
tea merchants
dumping the tea in Boston Harbor.
The reason the British imposed the Tea Act on the Colonists was due to debt. Britain had taken on much debt to help the colonists and they were trying to recover some of the funds.
The reason the British imposed the Tea Act on the Colonists was due to debt. Britain had taken on much debt to help the colonists and they were trying to recover some of the funds.
The Tea Act was passed in 1773, before the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was a protest against the tea act, as tea smugglers and merchants were afraid cheap tea would put them out of business. Since it was the reason for the Boston Tea Party, it could not be a punishment for Massachusetts.
The colonists opposed the implications of the Tea Act, as the goal was to undercut the price of illegal tea. It was a passive-aggressive way of legitimizing the Townshend Duties.The colonists eventually responded to the tea act by dressing as Mohawk Indians and threw 342 chests of tea into the ocean. The reason why they were dressed as Mohawk indians is because they knew if they were to be discovered, they would suffer MAJOR consequences or be brought into a war. And finally the reason why the colonists threw the tea is because they got furious about British taxation.
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 blank" = The Tea Act? A group of colonial protesters actually got on a few British tea ships and threw the tea overboard into Boston Harbor. Colonial leaders helped organize in protest against the Tea Act by not letting the ships set sail, but the famous action was destroying the tea on the ships, not just preventing the ships from leaving.
The tea act was a tax on all tea in the colonies. It was made to help pay for the French and Indian war.
The tea act(act that made tea have taxes) caused the Boston Tea Party(hundreds of colonists throw British tea into the ocean.)
The tea act