THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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The Intolerable Acts law was put into place in order to punish Massachusetts.
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The Tea Act was created to place taxes on tea sent to Boston.
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The colonists refused to buy tea from the British.
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The East India Company was formed in order to send more tea to colonies.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Boston Tea Party was the first significant act of defiance by American colonists. The implication and impact of the Boston Tea Party was enormous ultimately leading to the sparking of the American Revolution which began in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Which of the following best describes the events of Boston Tea Party in 1773? Colonists in disguise boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped a shipment of tea in the water.
Detailed explanation-4: -In April 1774, the British Parliament passed the Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts, which punished Massachusetts for the Tea Party incident. The Acts not only took away home rule from Massachusetts, it forced all Americans to board British troops in unoccupied buildings.