Its Caled a a Tax Poll... Atleast That's What I think It Is From What I Remember...
It was called the Boston Tea Party.
The British East Indian Company was in big trouble financially. All they had left worth anything was a lot of tea they wanted to unload in America. Americans could not buy tea except from Britain and British companies. So they forced the tea on American colonies. Tax was very miniscule but Britain wanted to show that the Colonies were still subject to the rule of Parliment. So the tax was placed on tea. Tea was cheap and tax neglible. However the principle of the tax made radical Colonists angry.
It was designed to punish Massachusetts. The Boston Tea Party was the cause of the intolerable acts. A bunch of rebels dressed up as Indians and dumped all of the English tea into the harbor in response to the tea act which placed a tax on tea.
England imposed the Townshend Acts to raise revenue to govern the colonies. Taxes were placed on such items as glass, paper, and tea.
The Boston Tea Party was not a group of people, but rather an event. It was a guerrila attack during which a group of colonists, angered over a tax the British had placed on tea, who dressed up as American Natives and sunk onto ships then dumped crates of tea into Boston Harbor.
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The British Parliament placed a tax on these items prior to the American Revolution. This act was called the Townsend Act and was enacted in 1767.
It was called the Boston Tea Party.
In the US, there is NOOO tax on tea.
The British East Indian Company was in big trouble financially. All they had left worth anything was a lot of tea they wanted to unload in America. Americans could not buy tea except from Britain and British companies. So they forced the tea on American colonies. Tax was very miniscule but Britain wanted to show that the Colonies were still subject to the rule of Parliment. So the tax was placed on tea. Tea was cheap and tax neglible. However the principle of the tax made radical Colonists angry.
Actually, nothing was taxed by the Tea Act. It permitted the East India Tea Company to ship tea directly from China to the Colonies. It was the Stamp Act that placed taxes on tea and other things.
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The Townshend Duty Act, enacted in 1767, placed a tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported into the colonies. Hope this helps! :)
The tea tax happened in 1773!!!
It was designed to punish Massachusetts. The Boston Tea Party was the cause of the intolerable acts. A bunch of rebels dressed up as Indians and dumped all of the English tea into the harbor in response to the tea act which placed a tax on tea.
England imposed the Townshend Acts to raise revenue to govern the colonies. Taxes were placed on such items as glass, paper, and tea.
Boston. That is why it is called what it is called. The Son's of Liberty threw the tea in the harbor because the British lowered the tea tax not raised. Sam Adams and Hancock were smuggling Dutch tea into the colonies and the cost of their tea was higher because of the British actions so they threw the tea.