The Boston Tea Party

By Ciara Dykstra

July, 2020

Britain’s In Debt The Tea Act of East India Company

was allowed to sell their
During the late 1700’s, tea for less than other
the British Government tea companies, like the
was in a huge amount of Dutch Company’s
debt due to the costs of colonists were
war and building a smuggling from.
massive empire.

Smuggling of Tea

The 13 Colonies The Decleration of

(America) smuggled tea Independence
from Dutch tea colonies https://www.ushistory.org/dec
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resulting in the British leration/related/teaact.html
East India Company
going into a massive
amount of debt because 1773
nobody was buying their
tea! The tea act launched
the final spark to the
revolutionary movement.
This act was designed
to help the British East
India Company, which
was a key factor in the
British economy, who
was burdened with
enormous amounts of
debt and tea. The Britain
Government allowed the
East India Company to
control the sale of tea
and to force a tax on the
colonists to pay three
pennies on every pound
of tea. With this act, the
Everyone Loved outraged! The colonists through town, and
Tea did not like the idea of dumped 342 chests f tea
the East India into the water. The
Americans, or the Company’s monopoly amount of tea they
thirteen colonies, loved scheme and they were dumped was worth
tea just as much as the angry with Britain for nearly two million dollars
English did and they imposing “taxation in today’s money.
drank over a million without Representation.”
pounds a year. When
the British government December 17, 1773
let the East India (Boston Tea Party)
Company to control the
Bostonians dressed like
sale of tea, they were
Indians, marches