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.
The colonists of America
Boycotted it
No, they boycotted British tea
There was the tax stamp, tea tax, and the sugar act.
Parliament believed the colonists would accept the Tea Act of 1773 because it lowered the price of tea for the colonists, making it more affordable than smuggled tea. Additionally, Parliament thought the colonists would be willing to pay the tax on tea to support British authority.
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.
How did the colonists resond to the act
the boston tea party
The tea act(act that made tea have taxes) caused the Boston Tea Party(hundreds of colonists throw British tea into the ocean.)
The colonists of America
Boycotted it
In protest of the Tea Act
No, they boycotted British tea
There was the tax stamp, tea tax, and the sugar act.
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Tea Act
It gave Britain a tea monopoly