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The primary purpose of the Tea Act was to increase the profitability of the East India Company to its stockholders
(which included the King and the wealthy elite that kept him secure in power)
and to help the Company drive its colonial small-business competitors out
of business. Because the Company no longer had to pay high taxes to England and held a monopoly on the tea it sold in the American colonies,
it was able to lower its tea prices to undercut the prices of the local importers and the mom-and-pop tea merchants and tea houses in every town in America.
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Did the british government pass the coercive act before or after the Boston tea party?
American school uh. it was after
What are the stamp act sugar act and townshend act?
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.
What laws did the British pass that made the colonists angry?
Stamp act, Sugar act, Intolerable act, Quartering act, Tea act, and Townshend Revenue act. It might be more but the first two are the main ones
What did the Tea Act allow the British to do?
I believe it was to be able to sell tea.
Did the Tea Act state that colonists had to buy tea from China?
No, they boycotted British tea
What Act did the British pass and impose on the Colonists after the Boston Tea Party?
Townshend Act
What event prompted the british to pass the intolerable acts?
Following the Boston tea party the intolerable act pass a year later
Why do you think the England passed the tea act?
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.
Why did parliament pass the intolerable act?
British wanted to punish Boston because of Boston Tea Party.
Did the british government pass the coercive act before or after the Boston tea party?
American school uh. it was after
Why did Parliament pass the intolerate act?
British wanted to punish Boston because of Boston Tea Party.
Why did Parliament pass the Intolerance Act?
British wanted to punish Boston because of Boston Tea Party.
What happened before the Tea Act was passed that made the British pass it?
the east India company was going bankrupt
What are the stamp act sugar act and townshend act?
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.
What does the Tea Act cause?
The tea act(act that made tea have taxes) caused the Boston Tea Party(hundreds of colonists throw British tea into the ocean.)
What laws did the British pass that made the colonists angry?
Stamp act, Sugar act, Intolerable act, Quartering act, Tea act, and Townshend Revenue act. It might be more but the first two are the main ones
What date did the Tea Act Pass?
it was in 1773
