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American Revolution for Kids: Boston Massacre - 0 views

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Revolutionary America! What Was the Problem? A Massacre and Tea Party in Boston - 0 views

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What was the Boston Massacre? | John Adams Historical Society - 1 views

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The Tea Act | Boston Tea Party Facts | 1773 | Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum - 2 views

  • The passing of the Tea Act imposed no new taxes on the American colonies. The tax on tea had existed since the passing of the 1767 Townshend Revenue Act. Along with tea, the Townshend Revenue Act also taxed glass, lead, oil, paint, and paper.
  • ue to boycotts and protests, the Townshend Revenue Act’s taxes were repealed on all commodities except tea in 1770. 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. The British East India Company was suffering from massive amounts of debts incurred primarily from annual contractual payments due to the British government totaling £400,000 per year. Additionally, the British East India Company was suffering financially as a result of unstable political and economic issues in India, and European markets were weak due to debts from the French and Indian War among other things. 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.
  • The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773,
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  • ownshend Revenue Act also taxed glass, lead, oil, paint, and paper.
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