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16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:49
Publish Date: 2017-12-15 21:05:38
Description: The British government had passed the Tea Act seven months earlier on 10 May, partly in an attempt to support the struggling East India Company. The act allowed the company to import tea directly to the colonies, bypassing the middlemen who previously handled overseas tea sales and avoiding the issue of duty and refunds for importing tea into Britain. Tea imported into the colonies would consequently be much cheaper, and allow the East India Company to undercut the price of smuggled Dutch tea. The problem for settlers in America was that tax was still imposed on tea in a continuation ...
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