The Tea Act
What was the purpose of the act? The purpose of the tea act
was to bail out british east india company and expand the company's
possession of tea. The Tea act was designed to have british east
india to trade to british colonies at the reduced price.It also
made the american colonists buy tea for a cheaper price than the
british people. The tea act also made the provision for a tax of 3
pence per pound to be collected on tea delivered to america. The
tea consignees were to be based in four centers in the colonies
(Boston,New york,Philadelphia and charleston.
2. What did the british hope the act would accomplish?
The British hoped that the tea act would undercut the tea
smuggled into britain's north american colonies.The British
government led by the Prime Minister, Lord North, hoped to reassert
Parliaments right to impose direct revenue taxes on the American
Colonies with the cheap tea.Never-the-less the British anticipated
a good reception to the Tea Act in America, after all, the
colonists would get their tea at a cost lower than ever before.Tea
would be cheaper in America than Britain. Ships laden with more
than half a million pounds of tea set off for the colonies shortly
after the Tea Act was passed.
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The acts main
purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out
the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British
economy.The British government granted the company a monopoly on
the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.The colonists had
never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the
Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance
culminated in the
Boston Tea
Partyon December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East
India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea
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