THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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It forced colonists to buy British tea instead of less expensive colonial tea.
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It limited how much tea each colonist could purchase from the British East India Company.
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It placed a tax on tea so that colonists had to pay higher prices for tea bought from colonial merchants.
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It allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonists instead of to colonial merchants.
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Detailed explanation-1: -They believed the Tea Act was a tactic to gain colonial support for the tax already enforced. The direct sale of tea by agents of the British East India Company to the American colonies undercut the business of colonial merchants. The smuggled tea became more expensive than the British East India Company tea.
Detailed explanation-2: -For years, Americans refused to buy British tea because it included a tax levied on tea drinkers, a thought that repulsed colonists who didn’t believe they should be taxed without a representative sitting in the British parliament to voice their concerns. Instead, Americans bought tea smuggled into the colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Outraged that American merchants were undercut, colonists initially in Philadelphia and New York refused the British East India Company tea to be offloaded and sent the ships back to England.