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Tea Party Questions 2022
Tea Party Questions 2022
Tea Act
https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-tea-act
1. The Tea Act gave which company a monopoly on tea sales in America?
3. Did the Tea Act charge the colonists any new taxes?
4. Why was the Tea tax kept when the rest of the Townshend Acts were repealed?
6. The Tea Act was not meant to anger the Americans. What was it meant to do?
7. How did exporting directly to the Americans help the East India Company?
8. Prior to the Tea Act, how did colonial merchants get their tea?
9. When the tea ships arrived in Boston, what did the Sons of Liberty want them to do?
What did Governor Hutchinson want them to do?
https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/boston-non-importation-agreement
12.How did colonists still get the products they wanted during the Non-Importation
Agreement?
13.What would happen when the British merchants would sail their products to America?
https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/participants-in-the-boston-tea-party
14.How many people are known to have participated in the Boston Tea Party?
Destruction of Tea
https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-destruction-of-the-tea
17.340 chests of British Tea were destroyed; how much is that worth in today’s money?
18. Only one thing was damaged on the ships besides tea, what was it? How did the Patriots
make up for that?