THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the early 1700s, the British government made a special deal with the East India Company, an English organization doing trade in the East Indies. They granted the East India Company a monopoly on tea by agreeing that no other company was allowed to sell tea in Britain or its colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Parliament offered the British East India Company a monopoly on the tea trade in the American colonies as a way to help get the East India Company out of debt. Parliament also hoped that the monopoly would, through lowering the price of British tea, do away with the illegal smuggling of Dutch tea in the colonies.
Detailed explanation-4: -The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies. The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it.