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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 Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act, a tax
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 [50] The Indemnity Act repealed taxes on tea imported to England, allowing it to be re-exported more cheaply to the colonies. This tax cut ...
The Tea Act made East India Tea cheaper than smuggled Dutch tea, increased sales and helped the government collect a tax on the tea. For many Americans, the idea of a failing corporation receiving ...
The Tea Act of 1773 was the English answer. It let the company cut out the middleman in London on the logic that the colonials would return to getting tea the upstanding way—from them. But ...
In the wake of the Boston Tea Party, the British government instated the Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts in the colonies. [1] There were five Acts within the Intolerable Acts: the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, the Quartering Act, and; the Quebec Act. [1]
Rather than calling for independence, the First Continental Congress passed and signed the Continental Association in its Declaration and Resolves, which called for a boycott of British goods to take effect in December 1774. After Congress signed on October 20, 1774, embracing non exportation they also planned nonimportation of slaves beginning ...
Attempts to alter the way Black history is taught would “make it near impossible to describe the daily events during the era of slavery or during the Civil Rights Movement,” writes Larry Fennelly.