The Tea Act, approved by the British Parliament on May 10, 1773, actually placed no new tax on tea and was not designed to increase revenue.  It was intended to benefit the East India Company by giving them the exclusive right to sell tea in the colonies, creating a monopoly which the colonists perceived as another means of “taxation without representation”.
The British government used the East India Company as a tool to spread its influence in India but in the early 1770s it was at the edge of bankruptcy. Its …

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George Greenville – the British Prime minister
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Charles Townshend
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The direct result of British policies in the colonies was growing discontent among the population. The situation even escalated to open confrontations between colonists and the British authorities. One of such confrontations was the famous Boston Massacre event which is being reenacted in this video.

The Intolerable Acts also known as Coercive Acts were a package of five laws implemented by the British government with the purpose of restoring authority in its colonies. The first four Acts were passed as reprisal for the rebellion against the 1773 Tea Act that led to the Boston Tea Party Protest.
The first act was The Boston Port Act which came into effect on March 31, 1774; it closed the port of Boston until the East India Tea company was repaid for the destroyed tea. All shipping, landing or discharging …

The series of British legislative acts against American colonies is best viewed as a sequence of action and counteraction events. These acts are an excellent illustration of the socioeconomic forces that destroyed the British colonial empire and led to the American Revolution. was the first serious American challenge to British power. The names of these acts are familiar to many. And how can anyone not remember a name like ? But did British Parliament actually called it that way?
From the time the British colonized the North American territory they tried …

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What was the Stamp Act?
The Stamp Act was a tax imposed by the British government on the American colonies. The primary goal was to raise money needed for military defenses of the colonies. The revenue was created by making the American population purchase stamps that became a legal requirement for all official documents, licenses, contract, newspapers and a long list of other paper items. The tax was payable in scarce silver and gold coins and not in paper money as was the most common method of payment in the colonies.

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The British law that imposed tax on molasses, sugar and rum imported to American colonies from non-British foreign colonies. The objective was to protect the position of British suppliers in American market against cheaper Spanish and French goods. The act not only increased the price of sugar and rum in the colonies, but also curtailed American trade with French colonies that were also buyers of American goods such as lumber and farm products. The tax was very severe but also poorly enforced and lead to wide-spread evasion, bribery and smuggling allowing some colonial …