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The Tea Act ended a number of restrictions but retained the monopoly on shipping tea to the colonies. Only the British East India Company could ship tea to the colonies. Parliament and the King insisted on showing they were still all powerful. So, the objection was more a power struggle than anything else.
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∙ 14y agoThe Tea Act ended a number of restrictions but retained the monopoly on shipping tea to the colonies. Only the British East India Company could ship tea to the colonies. Parliament and the King insisted on showing they were still all powerful. So, the objection was more a power struggle than anything else.
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What act is before the Tea Act?
The tea act was a tax on all tea in the colonies. It was made to help pay for the French and Indian war.
What is the stap act?
The Stamp Act was a tax that the British put on imports of Tea to the American colonies. It was one of the reasons for the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.
Why did the british think that the tea act would be accepted?
I don't think they did. They wanted to get as much money from the colonies as possible.
What did the Tea Act state?
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.
What happen during the Tea Act?
Comapny to sell tea below the price of the smuggled tea. Boston Tea Party - 1773, Samuel Adams led patriots ships disguised as Indians and raid of British ships dumped the loads of tea in to the Boston Harbor
Which company was the only legal source of tea in the colonies?
The East India Tea Company was the only legal source of tea in the colonies.
What year did The Act end?
The Tea Act was a British legislation that granted a monopoly on tea to the East India Company in the American colonies. Parliament passed the Taxation of Colonies Act 1778 which repealed the Tea Act.
What act is before the Tea Act?
The tea act was a tax on all tea in the colonies. It was made to help pay for the French and Indian war.
Why wouldn't the colonies be okay with the tea act if the price of legal tea was comparable to smuggled tea?
the colonies would not be okay with the tea act in any case because they did not want taxation without representation
What angered the colinists from the thirteen colonies?
Taxes, stamp act,tea act
What were laws that allowed only one company to sell tea to the colonies?
tea act
What was the effect of tea act?
The people of the colonies threw the tea in to the Boston Harbor. We have called this the Boston Tea Party.
When did tea rationing end?
The Tea Act was a British legislation that granted a monopoly on tea to the East India Company in the American colonies. Parliament passed the Taxation of Colonies Act 1778 which repealed the Tea Act.
Why did the colonist boycott tea?
The English were taxing the colonies a high amount for their tea.
What country placed a tax called the Tea Act on the colonies?
England.
Which of these acts passed by the british did not taxes for the American colonies?
Tea act
List three ways parliament tried to tax the colonies?
stamp act, quarter act, and tea act
