Episode # 9 – The Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party – May 10 & December 16, 1773

The Tea Act of 1773 which imposed a new tax on tea, that even though it was lower, by-passed colonial merchants and was a tax implemented without colonial representation. The resulting Boast Tea Party that destroyed imported British East India Company tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor led Parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts which became one of the sparks that started the American Revolution.