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=The Tea Act and Boston Tea Party= May 10, 1773- December 16, 1773

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=== The Tea Act of 1773 was for when the East India Trading Company decided they wanted to have full refund on the tea shipped to Britain and be able to ship to the colonies without having to notify anyone. This helped reduce the price because they wouldn't have to go through London to sell to the colonists. The Tea Act kept part of the Townshend Act in place, saying that you still had to pay tax on the tea. This tax led to the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea party was when the colonists started to refuse the tax on tea from the East India Trading Company. When Boston Officials in charge of imports didn't return the taxed tea to Britain some of the angered colonists went off into the night, climbed aboard the British ships and dumped the British Tea into the Boston Harbor. This was a moment in history that will be remembered as colonists becoming independent without Great Britain. ===