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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 was the tea act how did colonists react to the tea act?
The Tea Act of 1773 was a British law allowing the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the American colonies, effectively lowering its price but maintaining the tax on tea. Colonists viewed this as an attempt to undermine local merchants and assert British control over colonial trade. In protest, many colonists organized boycotts and demonstrations, culminating in the Boston Tea Party, where they dumped an entire shipment of tea into Boston Harbor in December 1773. This act of defiance escalated tensions between Britain and the colonies, leading to further conflict.
What angered the colinists from the thirteen colonies?
Taxes, stamp act,tea act
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 Parliament passed the Taxation of Colonies Act 1778 which repealed the Tea Act.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.
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 Parliament passed the Taxation of Colonies Act 1778 which repealed the Tea Act.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 was the tea act how did colonists react to the tea act?
The Tea Act of 1773 was a British law allowing the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the American colonies, effectively lowering its price but maintaining the tax on tea. Colonists viewed this as an attempt to undermine local merchants and assert British control over colonial trade. In protest, many colonists organized boycotts and demonstrations, culminating in the Boston Tea Party, where they dumped an entire shipment of tea into Boston Harbor in December 1773. This act of defiance escalated tensions between Britain and the colonies, leading to further conflict.
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.
How did it react to the colonist when the tea was taxed during the Tea Act?
The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the lowering of the cost of the British tea by the government and the East India tea company who had gotten a bail out from the crown in 1773. The smugglers in the colonies found the Dutch tea that they sold was higher in price than the British tea, so they staged the Boston Tea Party and others in harbors in the colonies ( Hamilton was one of the largest smugglers in the colonies and a founding member of the Son's of Liberty). The cost of tea also went as far back as the Navigation Acts and the restricting of trade to and from the colonies passed from 1650-1733. Tea was also taxed in 1767 in the Townsend Acts.
What country placed a tax called the Tea Act on the colonies?
England.
