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Why did the Parliament keep the tax on the tea act?
The British East Indian Company was in big trouble financially. All they had left worth anything was a lot of tea they wanted to unload in America. Americans could not buy tea except from Britain and British companies. So they forced the tea on American colonies. Tax was very miniscule but Britain wanted to show that the Colonies were still subject to the rule of Parliment. So the tax was placed on tea. Tea was cheap and tax neglible. However the principle of the tax made radical Colonists angry.
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What British tax remained after the Townsend Act were repealed?
What did the Tea Act of 1773 do
Why was the sons of liberty established?
The Sons of Liberty was established when the British wanted to put a tax on tea. The colonists reacted to this by creating The Sons of Liberty which Sam Adams was the leader He and other colonists made a plan to dump all tea into the Boston harbor. The reason for the dumping of the tea in the harbor is because the British was putting a tax on tea and you can't have "taxation without representation". The British had no representatives to the reason why they were putting a tax on the tea. Although we know why.
How did the colonist avoid buying the tea from England?
Taxes. That is the textbook answer. The colonists were angry that Britain had imposed a tax on tea. The correct answer is more complex. The Boston Tea Party actually occurred when the British Parliament ended the tax on tea. Tea merchants and other businessmen were angry that the tax had ended, making tea they had smuggled in less valuable.
What is the tea act and when was it?
Originally it was a tax on tea and then the British lowered the tea tax. By doing that they made the cost of the Dutch smugglers tea higher in price. They wanted to stop the smuggling and wanted to keep the monopoly on tea and by bringing down the tax they achieved both things.
What british tax remaind after the townshend acts were repealed?
After the Townshed Acts were repealed, a British tea tax remained. The objective of the tea tax was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
Were tax on tea reasonable?
the british put tax on tea cause the colonists were being violent
Why was the Boston Tea Party Made?
To protest the british tax on tea.
Why the Boston Tea Party started?
The British imposed a tax on tea.
Why did the Parliament keep the tax on the tea act?
The British East Indian Company was in big trouble financially. All they had left worth anything was a lot of tea they wanted to unload in America. Americans could not buy tea except from Britain and British companies. So they forced the tea on American colonies. Tax was very miniscule but Britain wanted to show that the Colonies were still subject to the rule of Parliment. So the tax was placed on tea. Tea was cheap and tax neglible. However the principle of the tax made radical Colonists angry.
The event that resulted from the tax on tea imposed by the British was known as the?
Boston Tea Party.
The event that results from the tax on tea imposed by the British was known as the?
Boston Tea Party.
What all caused them to dump the tea in the harbor?
The British began to change the taxes on tea. They were LOWERING the tax ( not increasing it) and the smugglers of Dutch tea into the colonies got upset because it would mean they would have a higher tea price than the British. So, the tea party was arranged to protest the tax. Some where along the line the tax story became one of the British making the tax higher without the consent of the colonies, but that is not true.
What event did the Colonists take part in when they protested the British tax on tea?
The Boston Tea Party
How did the smuggling of tea into the British colonies probably affect taxes collected on tea?
The smuggling of tea into the British colonies likely reduced the amount of tax revenue collected on legally imported tea. As colonists opted for cheaper smuggled tea to avoid high duties, legitimate tea sales plummeted, leading to lower tax income for the British government. This undermined the effectiveness of the tax system and fueled colonial resentment against British taxation policies, ultimately contributing to revolutionary sentiments.
In what year did the Boston colonists boycott the British Tea Act?
1775, right after the tea tax
