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http://www.masshist.org/teaching-history/resources/blackington/tea_party_docs.pdf

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On December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty organized a meeting in for members in the Old South Meetinghouse, from which the Tea Party began. At night, over 100 Sons of Liberty members dressed as Mohawk natives dumped 40 tons of tea in the Boston Harbor, equivalent to over 1.8 million USD today.

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After the British government heard of what happened, they passed the Intolerable Acts. The acts included the Boston Port Act, shut down and blockaded the Port of Boston until the the British East India Company was paid for the damaged goods.

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Colonists were outraged at the Act because it would be extremely detrimental to merchants in port cities. Also, Americans believed that any Act passed for them to follow by the British was unlawful.

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The Tea Act gives the East India Company a monopoly on the tea trade in the New World.

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The Tea Act of 1773 was an attempt by the British Parliament to give the bankrupt East India Company a monopoly on the tea trade to the colonies. The company could sell tea directly to the colonists and at a lower price, which hurt the colonial merchants. Although the colonists could buy tea at a cheaper price, they did not allow Parliament to have the authority to tax them.

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http://ahp.gatech.edu/tea_act_bp_1773.html

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Parliament passes the Tea Act

"An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the India Company's sales; and to empower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licences to the East India Company to export tea duty-free."
http://ahp.gatech.edu/tea_act_bp_1773.html

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Primary Source: To the Delaware Pilots [and] To Capt. Ayres [Philadelphia, 1773].

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Primary Source: To the Delaware Pilots [and] To Capt. Ayres [Philadelphia, 1773].

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https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.14303100/?st=text

In the first Place, we must tell you, that the Pennsylvanians are, to a Man,passionately fond of Freedom; the Birthright of Americans; and at all Events are determined to enjoy it.

That they sincerely believe, no Power on the Face of the Earth has a Right to tax them without their Consent...

To our Care are committed all Offenders against the Rights of America; and hapless is he, whose evil Destiny has doomed him to suffer at our Hands.