the tax that caused the boston tea party was three pence.
how much was the tax that caused the boston tea party?
three pence
the crisis of 1772 also set off a chain of events related to the controversy over the colonial tea market. the east india company was one of the firms that suffered the hardest hits in the crisis. failing to pay or renew its loan from the bank of england, the firm sought to sell its eighteen million pounds of tea from its british warehouses to the american colonies. back then the firm had to market its tea to the colonies through middlemen, so the high price made its tea unfavorable compared to the tea that was smuggled to or was produced locally in the colonies. in may 1773, however, the parliament imposed a three pence tax for each pound of tea sold, and allowed the firm to sell directly through its own agents. the tea act reduced the tea price and enabled the east india company’s monopoly over the local tea business in the colonial tea market. furious about how british government and the east india company controlled the colonial tea trade, citizens in charleston, philadelphia, new york and boston rejected the imported tea, and these protests eventually led to the boston tea party in 1773. the crisis also worsened the relationship of the north american colonies and britain, due to the fact that it affected all 13 of the colonies, and due to the fact that the british were forced to introduce controversial legislation for the colonies in an attempt to remedy the crisis.
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the boston tea party was a 1773 colonial protest action which presaged the american revolution.









































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