4: "Boston Harbor A Tea-Pot This Night:" The Boston Tea Party
History That Doesn't Suck
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The East India Company Is a Pirate's Dream
The east india company has a legal monopoly on british trade coming from the Indian ocean. It alone can legally sell tea in britain, which may then be sold at auction to merchants wanting to sell tea in the colonies. All this is crucial to the company's well being - but it also makes East India Company ta expensive in america. So what do you think the colonials buy? Yep, not endorsing this illegal behavior. But just like their descendants, who might blow off an fbi warning and download pirated movies, colonial America buys up that smuggled tea.
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