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may 10, 1773 - The Tea act

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This was an act that lowered the tax on tea required colonists to buy tea shipped by the EIC. The British did this to get the EIC out of debt. The colonist thought that this gave the EIC a monopoly on tea.

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may 10, 1773
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~ 252 years ago