What is the tea act?

Answer 1

The Tea act was passed by the British Parliament in 1773 to reduce the tax on tea shipped to the colonies. The Tea Act of 1773 was one of many measures imposed on the American colonists by the indebted British government. The main purpose of the Tea Act was to help out the faltering East India Company, a key factor in the British economy. The British government granted the company sole control (monopoly) on tea being imported and sold in the colonies. The colonists had never accepted the fact that there was a high tax on tea and the Tea Act reignited their disagreement with it. Their resistance ended in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, where colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their tea overboard. Parliament was very angry and set up a series of harsh measures meant to stop Colonial resistance to British rule; two years later the American Revolutionary War began.
On April 27, 1773, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act. Its purpose was to save the East India Company from bankruptcy by removing all duties on tea shipped, making the price of British tea much lower than the colonial tea price.

Answer 2

Parliament agreed and passed the Tea Act in 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists. Many colonial merechants and the smugglers feared that the British East India Company's cheap tea would put them out of business. Three ships loaded with tea from the British East India Compant arrived in Boston Harbor in 1773. The Sons of Liberty demanded that the ships leave. But the governor of Massachuetts would not let the ships leave without paying the duty. Unswure of what to do, the captains waited in the harbor. The purpose of the tea act was to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy.

Answer 3

It was a terrible act laid upon the colonists and was very harsh. The Brittish laid this act to enforce that they still had power and still were right.