Tea+Act


 * Conceived to save the British East Indian Trade Company
 * Growing tea
 * Lots and lots of tea
 * Going broke
 * Need to move the tea
 * Colonists wont accept taxation
 * Everything is taxed in the colonies because of the Navigation Acts
 * Still pay the townsend duties on the tea
 * Very tiny
 * British Tea is cheaper
 * When paying for the tea accepting their taxes.
 * Everyone is going to by the cheap tea. Fine with the taxes. Sons of Liberty are not okay with this.
 * Don’t want anyone in NE to drink tea. Want to say to the British that they don’t agree with the taxes. If paying for the tea you agree. Trying to stop all the colonists.
 * If the governor unloaded the tea colonists would set his house on fire and if he sent back the tea British government would fire him from being royal governor. Left the ships in the harbor.
 * Dress up as Mohawks, board the ships and dump all the tea in the harbor
 * Most people were going to by the tea anyway because the tea was cheaper so the Sons of Liberty did this to make a point.
 * Didn’t want people to succumb to the tea so they put it away

__ 1773 __


 * British East India Company -subject to Townshend duties but NOT the new tea taxes
 * Did this because British East India Company was going bankrupt
 * Tax from Townshend duties was not lifted
 * Dutch Tea is much more expensive than British tea
 * BUT, by buying BEIC tea, they would be implicitly accepting the tax
 * Two Tea Taxes:


 * 1) Townshend Duty taxes
 * 2) Tea Act of 1773


 * Colonists had two choices between two teas:


 * 1) British East India tea- no navigation tax, no Tea Act of 1773 tax, WITH Townshend tax
 * 2) Smuggled, foreign, expensive tea- navigation tea, Tea Act of 1773 tax, and Townshend tax


 * Sons of Liberty boycott tea- make sure it stays in the harbor- so that no one can buy the tea.
 * Believes England can transform the mind of colonists
 * Forcing them to buy the cheap tea is the same relation as forcing them to change opinions, etc.
 * This makes England VERY mad…

__Intolerable Acts__
 * 1) Boston must quarter soldiers
 * 2) Put in new royal officers
 * 3) Closed down the port of Boston
 * 4) Reduced sub-government in the colonies
 * 5) Let people be tried in other places