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The Tea Act 1773 (13 Geo. 3.c. 44) 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 in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. [1]
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [2] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.
On 16 December 1773, a group of Patriot colonists associated with the Sons of Liberty destroyed 342 chests of tea in Boston, Massachusetts, an act that came to be known as the Boston Tea Party. The colonists partook in this action because Parliament had passed the Tea Act , which granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in ...
A ship laden with tea was supposed to arrive in Boston in 1773, where its contents would likely have been dumped. But it wrecked on Cape Cod! When tea was big trouble: Ship bound for Boston Tea ...
The Chestertown Tea Party was a protest against British excise duties which, according to local legend, [1] took place in May 1774 in Chestertown, Maryland, as a response to the British Tea Act. Chestertown tradition holds that, following the example of the more famous Boston Tea Party , colonial patriots boarded the brigantine Geddes in broad ...
When the Tea Act 1773 was passed by the Parliament, colonists became especially angry. The act gave the British East India Company a monopoly in the colonies. [4] Tea was important to colonists for a couple of reasons. Drinking tea was safer than drinking water, although they did not know at that time that it destroyed germs in the water.
27 April – Parliament passes the Tea Act 1773 (13 Geo. 3. c. 44), designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade. 10 May – Tea Act 1773 comes into force. [5] 27 May Parliament passes the Plate Assay (Sheffield and Birmingham) Act 1772 (13 Geo. 3. c.
The name "Tea Party" is a reference to the Boston Tea Party, an incident on December 16, 1773 where American colonists in Boston threw numerous chests of tea taken from ships in the city harbor into the sea in protest over the British Parliament's Tea Act.