boston tea party
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- Tea Monopoly
- No Thanks!
- This is unfair! I won't buy their tea! Me too!
- Tea Act
- What do I do to fix this?! Oh I know...
- In 1773, the British East India Company had a monopoly on tea imports and the colonists were not happy.
- Tea Party
- This is how we feel about your "precious" tea!
- The colonists were not going to accept that, so they decided to boycott the Company's tea. This hurt the business really bad and much tea was just sitting in warehouses unsold.
- News Reaches London
- Ok people! Until all the tea has been paid for the harbor will be closed!
- The Lord North wanted to save the company though, so he created The Tea Act. The Tea Act allowed for the British East India company to sell tea without taxes. The colonists still had to pay taxes to sell tea though.
- The Intolerable Acts
- On December 16th, a group from Boston dressed up as Native Americans and dumped 15,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor.
- Tea
- Tea
- News reached King George III of England and he was angered by the destruction of British property. He coerced the British Parliament to do something in retaliation.
- Britain's punishment for the colonists came in the form of the Intolerable Acts. There were five of them and some of the demands in them included the closing of the Boston Port and forcing the colonists to give British soldiers shelter.
- Closed due to the Boston Port Act
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