USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This act placed duties on a number of goods imported into the colonies, including tea, glass, paper and paint. The revenue raised by these duties would be used to pay the salaries of royal colonial governors.

Detailed explanation-2: -American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation, ” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Tea Act allowed the East India Company to unload 544, 000 pounds of old tea, commission-free, on the American Colonies at a bargain price.

Detailed explanation-4: -King George III imposed a tax on official documents in American colonies. Included under the act were bonds, licenses, certificates, and other official documents as well as more mundane items such as plain parchment and playing cards.

Detailed explanation-5: -With the passing of the Tea Act, the seventeen million pounds of unsold surplus tea the British East India Company owned could be sold to markets in the American colonies. The tea was to be shipped to the American colonies and sold at a reduced rate.