4: "Boston Harbor A Tea-Pot This Night:" The Boston Tea Party
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The East India Company's Indemnity Act Makes Tea Legal
The 17 67 indemnity act lowers the duty on black and sheep green teas sold in england, and refunds the duties paid there if the tea continues on to america. Legal tea imports rise by forty two % in new york and 100% in philadelphia within the first 18 months of the bill going into effect. The initial lower duty in britain also gets his majesty's subjects there to drink increasing legal tea as well. But it isn't getting colonials to drink as much e i c ta as it could. That's because of another act passed only days before it, that same june 17 67, the townsend revenue act. This is charles champagne char
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