Tea Act
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title:
Tea Act
text:
The Tea Act 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. A related objective was to undercut the price of illegal tea, smuggled into Britain's North American colonies. This was supposed to convince the colonists to purchase Company tea on which the Townshend duties were paid, thus implicitly agreein
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encyclopedia
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United Kingdom legislation
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act
date created:
2004-06-28T22:39:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T11:19:25Z
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