So What:  This provided Great Britain with great land gains

So What:  To help pay for troops stationed in the colonies

So What:  to help replenish their finances after the costly Seven Years' War with France

So What:  in response to greatly increased empire defense costs in America following the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War.

So What:  to discuss the rights of the colonists regarding British taxation such as the Stamp Act

So What:  To discuss the rights of the colonists

So What:  There was widespread protest, and American port cities refused to import British goods

So What:  to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government 

So What:  In simplest terms, the Boston Tea Party happened as a result of “taxation without representation”

So What:  to reassert its dominance over the American colonies following the Boston Tea Party.

So What:    to break Massachusetts Bay and to warn the other colonies of the consequences of rebellious behavior

So What:  to plan further responses if the British government had not repealed or modified the acts

So What:  American colonists rebelled against the taxes they found repressive, rallying around the cry, “no taxation without representation.

So What:  colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make them repay the crown for its defense of them during the French and Indian War

So What:  declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.