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Who was the owner of the tea in the Boston Tea Party?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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The tea was sold by the British East India Company. Part of the driving force behind the Boston Tea Party was that the East India Company was tax-exempt, whereas other tea companies in the colonies were taxed. This effectively gave the East India Company a monopoly.

Thus, the Boston Tea Party was not just about taxation without representation, but was also a reaction to government-enforced monopoly.

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