THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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Colonists gave dinners to support the sale of tea.
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Colonists dressed as Indians destroyed the tea
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Colonists bought tea from other countries
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Colonists started growing their own tea
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Detailed explanation-1: -To protest British Parliament’s tax on tea. “No taxation without representation.” The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor . The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly.
Detailed explanation-2: -The act’s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy. The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Boston Tea Party, which occurred on December 16, 1773 and was known to contemporaries as the Destruction of the Tea, was a direct response to British taxation policies in the North American colonies.
Detailed explanation-4: -The colonists resisted the Tea Act more because it violated the constitutional principle of self-government by consent than because they could not afford the tax, which had existed since the passage of the 1767 Townshend Revenue Act.
Detailed explanation-5: -What unique circumstances caused the Boston Tea Party to take place in Boston, and not in another port city? a. Most British tea was imported through Boston, as southerners avoided warm beverages on account of the climate.