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The Boston Tea Party & Tea Acts

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and tea purchases of imported goods || taxes || colonists || except for on tea on British goods || committees of correspondence, which helped communicate Boston's positions to other colonies || American colonists condemned the act. many colonists planned to boycott tea. disguised themselves as Indians, got on the ship, and dumped all the tea into the harbor ||
 * Dates || Acts ||
 * 1764 || *Sugar Act-increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies
 * Currency Act-prohibited American colonies from using their own currency
 * Beginnings of Colonial Opposition-protest of the people to the sugar and currency act ||
 * 1765 || *Quartering Act- required the colonists to provide for their troops
 * Stamp Act-put tax on the American colonies
 * Organized Colonial Protest-an organized protest of the people ||
 * 1766 || *Repealing of the Stamp Act-the colonies abandoned their ban on imported British goods
 * Declaratory Act-a new law binding the American colonies
 * Resistance to the Quartering Act in New York-refused to assist quartering troops ||
 * 1767 || *Townshend Acts-an act to help pay expenses, putting tax on glass, lead, paint, paper,
 * Nonimportation-because of the new taxes the colonists decided to discourage the
 * 1768 || *Massachusetts Circular Letter-Samuel Adams wrote a letter to Parliament's raise in
 * 1769 || *Virginia's Resolutions-a resolution to the problems, saying that only the king can tax the
 * 1770 || *Townshend Acts Cut Back-because of the reduced profits Parliament withdrew all taxes
 * An End to Nonimportation-because taxes were reduced, colonies relaxed their boycott
 * 1772 || *Committees of Correspondence-Samuel Adams had a Boston town meeting to create
 * 1773 || *Tea Act-British merchants thought it was an unfair advantage to sell their tea, so
 * Boston Tea Party-citizens wanted the tea sent back to England free of tax, so they

T he Boston Tea Party was a colonial expedition to be free of taxes. The act was started because colonists did not like having to pay British taxes on tea. The colonists wanted a way to avoid paying British taxes. The male colonists dressed as   indians and took actions to revolt. The colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. Punishments were issued to Massachusetts and Boston because of the Boston Tea Party. Immediately following the Boston Tea Party, Boston became placed under martial law, trade became limited, soldiers were stationed at the homes of townspeople, and taxes were slightly lowered. In order to free taxes, the colonists revolted by dumping tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party helped colonists by eventually having taxes lowered, but many punishments were issued because of it.

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Did the tea act allow tax collection in the colonies? Explain.

In 1770, what did Lord North do?

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What was the date and time that the Boson Tea Party occured?

How many people participated in the destruction of the tea?