The taxes were levied because the crown reasoned that the colonies should help pay for the French and Indian War since the British army protected them. The tea tax was LOWERED and not raised which made the smuggled Dutch tea higher than the British tea.
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the intolerable act
Boston was supposed to be punished, for dumping tea into the Boston harbor.
Boston was supposed to be punished, for dumping tea into the Boston harbor.
British wanted to punish Boston because of Boston Tea Party.
British wanted to punish Boston because of Boston Tea Party.
British wanted to punish Boston because of Boston Tea Party.
because they wanted to punish the other people that made the tea party thingy
To punish Bostontonians (people from Boston) for the Boston Tea Party during the pre-revolutionary period
The tea act was passed by the Parliament on May 10, 1773
On this day in 1773, the British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a de facto monopoly on the American tea trade.
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