THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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The British government passed new laws the following year to punish Massachusetts.
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Many colonists were so angry, they flatly refused to buy the British tea.
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But the British demanded payment.
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The Americans stood up for their rights.
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Detailed explanation-1: -But the colonists were angry because the Act would give the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies. The colonists became angry again about being taxed without representation.
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: -The cause of the Boston Tea Party was the colonists didn’t want taxed tea. The effect was the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped all the tea of three ships when they brought a new supply to the colonists.
Detailed explanation-4: -By allowing the East India Company to sell tea directly in the American colonies, the Tea Act cut out colonial merchants, and the prominent and influential colonial merchants reacted with anger.