... to help the financially troubled British East India Company sell 17,000,000 pounds of tea stored in England, the Tea Act rearranged excise regulations so that the company could pay the Townshend duty and still undersell its competitors."(Black 91) At the same time, the North administration hoped to reassert Parliament's right to levy direct revenue taxes on the Colonies. "The shipments became a symbol of taxation tyranny to the colonists, reopening the door to unknown future tax abuses. Colonial resistance culminated in Boston Tea Party in which was dumped into the ocean, and in a similar action in New York " (Lancester 74) After the Tea act, there is another important phenomenon is Boston Tea Party. "On December 16, 1773, American patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded the vessels of the East Indian Company docked in the Boston harbor and dumped all the tea that was on the three ships into ...

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