WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The repeal led to a temporary truce until the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. The British government used the legislation to show that it had the right and power to tax the Colonies as it wished. The Tea Tax was instrumental in the Boston Tea Party.

Detailed explanation-2: -The act granted the EIC a monopoly on the sale of tea that was cheaper than smuggled tea; its hidden purpose was to force the colonists to pay a tax of 3 pennies on every pound of tea. The Tea Act thus retained the three pence Townshend duty on tea imported to the colonies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Also on March 5, Townshend’s successor (he had died soon after proposing the hated act), Lord Frederick North, asked Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts except for the duty on tea; he considered all the duties bad for trade and, thus, expensive for the British empire.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Townshend Acts’ taxation of imported tea was enforced once again by the Tea Act 1773, and this led to the Boston Tea Party in 1773 in which Bostonians destroyed a large shipment of taxed tea. Parliament responded with severe punishments in the Intolerable Acts 1774.