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11h 31min, dec 16, 1773 y - The Tea Act was passed by Parliament. This act created a monopoly on selling tea in the colonies for the British East India Company, bypassing colonial merchants. Resistance to the Tea Act would eventually lead to the Boston Tea Party

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