TEA TAXES

TEA ACT


Tea Act was in 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company.

The Act granted the Company the right to directly ship its tea to North America and the right to the duty-free export of tea from Britain, so they imposed the tax imposed on the colonies.



BOSTON TEA PARTY


The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty, on December 16, 1773. In defiance of the Tea Act, some of them disguised themselves as Native Americans and destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

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