THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Question
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Why did the Tea Act worry merchants in the colonies?
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They saw how easily the British could monopolize a good if they chose to do so.
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Lower-priced tea meant less money in sales for merchants.
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The East India Company selected the merchants that could sell their tea.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Parliament agreed and passed the Tea Act in 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists. Many colonial merchants and smugglers feared that the British East India Company’s cheap tea would put them out of business.
Detailed explanation-2: -Besides the tax on tea which had been in place since 1767, what fundamentally angered the American colonists about the Tea Act was the British East India Company’s government sanctioned monopoly on tea.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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