1. Tea Act(1773)
            a. British gov't granted British East India Company a monopoly of  
                the American tea trade.
                i.    BEIC on the verge of bankruptcy which would have cost the
                     British government huge revenues.
                ii.  Price of tea would be even lower than existing prices, even with the tax.
            b. Americans reacted angrily: saw Tea Act as an attempt to trick colonies
                into accepting the tax through cheaper tea.

•          The Boston Tea Party

•          Tea Act (1773)-charged a tax on all tea coming into colonies

•          most water had poor taste-boiled with tea leafs to make drinkable

•          reaction to the act became widespread

•          Delaware Committee for Tarring and Feathering took care of the tea shippers

Those who bought tea were marked as traitors

•          Dartmouth- arrived in Nov. 1773 with tea

•          Sam Adams and Sons of liberty called for the ships return to England

•          Gov. Thomas Hutchinson ordered Boston Harbor to be closed

•          Dec. 17, 1773-Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, boarded the Dartmouth

•          brewed Boston Harbor with 90,000 lbs. Of tea

•          tea washed up 200 miles down the shores

 Results of the Boston Tea Party