THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Colonists had to spend more money on other goods such as paper
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Colonists still would not buy British tea after the price was lowered
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Colonists dumped 342 chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor.
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Colonists did not have representation in the British Parliament
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Detailed explanation-1: -The colonists’ major issue with the Townshend Acts was not the higher cost of tea. What evidence from the passage best supports this conclusion? Colonists dumped 342 chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor. Colonists had to spend more money on other goods such as paper.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why were the colonists not pacified by the discounted cost of tea after the Tea Act of 1773? Suggested answer: The colonists were not pacified by the discounted cost of tea after the Tea Act of 1773 because the cost of tea was not their main grievance.
Detailed explanation-3: -American colonists were outraged over the tea tax. 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.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.