COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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The British government was using the tea to bribe it’s enemies.
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They thought if they did not get the tea out of China the Chinese would drink it all!
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British soldiers needed the tea to stay awake and the British governemnt relied on alert soldiers to rule.
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Taxes on tea made up a very large proportion of the British economy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The tea tax was kept in order to maintain Parliament’s right to tax the colonies. The Tea Act was not intended to anger American colonists, instead it was meant to be a bailout policy to get the British East India Company out of debt.
Detailed explanation-2: -But drug dealing proved to be an expensive headache, and so, in 1848, Britain embarked on the biggest botanical heist in history, as well as one of the biggest thefts of intellectual property to date: stealing Chinese tea plants, as well as Chinese tea-processing expertise, in order to create a tea industry in India.
Detailed explanation-3: -The British response to the Boston Tea Party was to impose even more stringent policies on the Massachusetts colony. The Coercive Acts levied fines for the destroyed tea, sent British troops to Boston, and rewrote the colonial charter of Massachusetts, giving broadly expanded powers to the royally appointed governor.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tea Act Imposed In May 1773, British Parliament passed the Tea Act which allowed British East India Company to sell tea to the colonies duty-free and much cheaper than other tea companies-but still tax the tea when it reached colonial ports.