16 dez 1773 ano - Boston Tea Party

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[1773]

cause: tea act gave British East India Co. monopoly on tea; colonists saw it as a trick to accept taxation

Effect: BOSTON TEA HARBOR! DUMP TEA -> brits came in with the intolerable acts

Tea Act
- reduced tax on imported British tea -> act gave Brtisih merchants an unfair advantage when selling their tea in America

Tea = British Tyranny

Colonists dressed up as natives and threw pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor

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