- 19 Feb 2009 08:03
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http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/www ... actdef.htm
this is very funny:
Th website is wrong, the Americans were allowed to buy tea from any company, it's just that the tea from the East Indian Company is so much cheaper that the American will want to buy them.
stupid website
Tea Act
1773 Act that gave a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company. In other words, American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from that company. Why? Well, the East Indian Company wasn't doing so well, and the British wanted to give it some more business. The Tea Act lowered the price on this East India tea so much that it was way below tea from other suppliers. But the American colonists saw this law as yet another means of "taxation without representation" because it meant that they couldn't buy tea from anyone else (including other colonial merchants) without spending a lot more money. Their response was to refuse to unload the tea from the ships. This was the situation in Boston that led to the Boston Tea Party.
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/www ... actdef.htm
this is very funny:
In other words, American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from that company.
Th website is wrong, the Americans were allowed to buy tea from any company, it's just that the tea from the East Indian Company is so much cheaper that the American will want to buy them.
stupid website
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