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The Taxation of Colonies Act 1778 repealed the tea tax and others that had been imposed on the colonies, but it proved insufficient to end the war. The Tea Act became a "dead letter" as far as the Thirteen Colonies were concerned, and was formally removed from the books in 1861. This would go against their belief that only colonial governments ...
The act, passed during the American Revolutionary War, was an attempt by Parliament to end the war by conceding one of the early points of dispute. [ 2 ] Parliament's effort to tax the colonies without the consent of the colonists, especially as enacted in the Townshend Acts of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773, had been a major cause of the ...
This act was designed to assist the financially troubled British East India Company and enable tea to enter North America priced lower than the tea typically smuggled in to avoid taxes. [3] Colonists recognized that by buying this lower-cost tea, and paying the import tax from the Townshend Acts, they would be setting a precedent of abiding by ...
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.
The passage of the Tea Act 1773 in May 1773, ... In that year "the commissioners of the king of Great Britain," known as the Carlisle Peace Commission of 1778, ...
The Revenue Act was passed in conjunction with the Indemnity Act 1767 (7 Geo 3 c 56), [e] [49] which was intended to make the tea of the British East India Company more competitive with smuggled Dutch tea. [50] The Indemnity Act repealed taxes on tea imported to England, allowing it to be re-exported more cheaply to the colonies.
Parliament passes the Tea Act, requiring the colonies to buy tea solely from the East India Company rather than a variety of sources now deemed illegal (May 10) Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York published by local Sons of Liberty (December 15) Colonists in all major ports refuse to allow tea to be landed; Boston Tea Party (December 16)
In 1778, after the British defeat at Saratoga (concluded Oct. 17, 1777) and fearful of French recognition of American independence, Prime Minister Lord North had repealed (February 1778) the Tea Act and the Massachusetts Government Act. As far as the Americans were concerned, it was far too late.