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Boston Tea Party
Henry Lemendik
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About
The Boston Tea Party was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against the British Government in which they destroyed many crates of tea belonging to the British East India Company and dumped it into the Boston Harbor . The incident, which took place on December 16, 1773, was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution and remains an iconic event of American history.
Background
Europeans developed a taste for tea in the 17th century . When tea became popular in the British colonies in North America, Parliament sought to eliminate foreign competition by passing an act in 1721 that required colonists to import their tea only from Great Britain and the East India Company. Because Parliament heavily taxed this tea and charged the East India company tarrifs, both Britons and British Americans found that it was much cheaper to buy smuggled tea, which usually came from Dutch sources . The biggest market for smuggled tea was England , but tea was also smuggled into the colonies to a lesser extent.
Tea Act 1773
In response to this, the British government passed the Tea Act, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea to the colonies directly, paying the much lower American duty . This tax break allowed the East