Part of the reason was to generate new taxes to help pay for the French and Indian War that they had just won.
The Tea Act LOWERED the cost of the British tea tax and the British did it to make the tea more competitive against the tea that was being smuggled in from Holland by American smugglers. The smugglers were upset to see that they would loose business and it had nothing to do with taxes.
The Tea Act of 1773 gave British tea companies a hegemony over all the American tea trade. The Tea Act was created to provide protection for the British East India Tea Company, which was struggling against competition, as well as a way to tax the colonists.
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The Sugar Act was enacted in order to prevent smuggling in the colonies. The British wanted the colonies to purchase goods only from Britain. The Tea Act was a lower in prices of tea from the British East India Company. the British enacted the Tea Act because their tea was too expensive and they couldn't sell. With a lower price, colonists began to buy the British tea. Colonial merchants were angry because their tea wouldn't sell to the colonists since the British tea had a lowered price. The Tea Act led to the Boston Tea Party where colonial merchants protested about British tea and threw crates of them into Boston harbor.
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 LOWERED the cost of the British tea tax and the British did it to make the tea more competitive against the tea that was being smuggled in from Holland by American smugglers. The smugglers were upset to see that they would loose business and it had nothing to do with taxes.
I believe it was to be able to sell tea.
No, they boycotted British tea
The Boston Tea Party was an act to boycott British tea.
The Tea Act Crisis, was the British attempt to bargain Tea prices to the British Colonies in America, this action was seen as a way to make the Colonist go against their principals, given that they were being repressed by the British Parliament. As a result, the Colonists at Boston threw the tea into the harbor. A crime that would go unpunished, but British leaders agreed on regaining absolute obedience.
the british made them pay for all the destroyed tea