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.
Although the British East India Company had reduced the price on their tea (due to the Tea Act), this was just a way to hide the taxes of the Townshend Acts from the colonists. Aware of these taxes, the colonists refused to purchase ths tea, refusing to accept that the British had the right to tax them. They protested during the Boston Tea Party, where they dumped the tea into the Boston harbor.
1775, right after the tea tax
The event in which American colonists protested British taxes was the Boston Tea Party, which took place on December 16, 1773. Colonists, frustrated by the Tea Act that granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales and imposed taxes without representation, boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor as an act of defiance. This protest escalated tensions between Britain and the colonies, ultimately contributing to the American Revolution.
they were the acts that made the colonists start the Boston tea party... they housed british soldiers in to colonists houses
because the british kept taxing the tea! so the colonists decided too protest, and dump the tea into Boston Harbor
They destroyed the tea in protest of the Tea Act. This act required the colonists to exclusively purchase tea from the British West Indies Company. This angered the colonists because they could not purchase tea from other countries for better quality or price.
No, they boycotted British tea
the british made them pay for all the destroyed tea
The colonists dressed up as Indians and threw british tea into the Boston Harbor and that act is now known as the Boston Tea Party
To protest British taxation of tea.
The colonist dumped tea because the British were taxing them
The colonists were outraged when the British taxed the colonists (after the French Indian War) crazy amounts. The British had a large tax on the colonists favorite drink, tea. So the colonists dumped a ton of tea off a British ship in Boston Harbor to make the point that they did not want to be taxed so heavily.
The reason the British imposed the Tea Act on the Colonists was due to debt. Britain had taken on much debt to help the colonists and they were trying to recover some of the funds.
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.
No, The soldiers were unaware of the colonists committing this act.
The British were taxing the colonists for tea and other necessities unfairly. They also would not let the colonists be represented in Britain.