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Tea Party Time! And everyone’s invited…

The Tea Act -Government Bailout for East India Company (Failing/Suplus Tea) Allowed the company to import tea to colonies without paying any taxes, so they could sell it cheaper and wipe out competition from those selling smuggled Tea from other sources (illegal Dutch tea). -The thought was the cheap tea would kill the smuggled tea market which couldn’t compete with prices, even with the Townshend Act taxes. -But. . . The actual consequence of this was a different story.

Colonists respond. . . -Daughters of Liberty -BOYCOTT (Even though they love tea more than life itself. ) -Local Merchants in NY and PA return shipments to the docks. -Charleston left Tea on the dock to rot. -Meanwhile in Boston. . .

Boston Tea Party Dec. 16 1973 -Angry colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded three ships docked in the Harbor. -Dumped more than 300 chests into the water (Valued today around 2 Million Dollars)

- Samuel Adams (Cousin of John Adams) was thought to have something to do with the whole operation. He said the day of the event: “Fellow countrymen, we cannot afford to give a single inch! If we retreat now, everything we have done becomes useless. If Governor Hutchinson will not send tea back to England, perhaps we can brew a pot of it especially for him!”

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The Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) 1774 Enraged Parliament unites to pass 4 Acts: 1. Closed Boston Port until Tea was paid. 2. Revoked the Mass. Colony Charter and restricted public Assembly. 3. Allowed British officials accused of capital crimes to be tried outside the colonies. 4. Placed Massachusetts under SERIOUS British Military Control.