the tea act was passed on July 5,1773
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The tea act was a tax on all tea in the colonies. It was made to help pay for the French and Indian war.
To punish Bostontonians (people from Boston) for the Boston Tea Party during the pre-revolutionary period
The colonists protested the passage of the Tea Act. One infamous event was the Boston Tea Party, in which protesters destroyed a shipment of tea.
tea merchants
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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5/1773 for the tea, but they were 2 different acts.
Townshend Act
the Boston Tea Party
Following the Boston tea party the intolerable act pass a year later
the intolerable act
Boston was supposed to be punished, for dumping tea into the Boston harbor.
Boston was supposed to be punished, for dumping tea into the Boston harbor.
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.
British wanted to punish Boston because of Boston Tea Party.
British wanted to punish Boston because of Boston Tea Party.
British wanted to punish Boston because of Boston Tea Party.