THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
LEXINGTON CONCORD AND BUNKER HILL THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BEGINS
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Colonists better understood the importance of taxes.
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Colonists all started drinking coffee.
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Colonists worried that England would limit where they could buy other things.
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Colonists decided to buy their tea from other countries.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard.
Detailed explanation-2: -Parliament agreed and passed the Tea Act in 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists. Many colonial merchants and smugglers feared that the British East India Company’s cheap tea would put them out of business.
Detailed explanation-3: -The 1773 Act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on British Tea, so it had control over all tea sold in the colonies. Even though the price of tea was lowered, the colonists were angry because they were forced to buy only British East India Company’s tea and no longer could buy any tea they wanted.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tea Act. By reducing the tax on imported British tea, this act gave British merchants an unfair advantage in selling their tea in America. American colonists condemned the act, and many planned to boycott tea.