Examples of Tea Act in the following topics:
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- The Tea Act of 1773 arose from the financial problems of the British East India Company and the dispute of Parliament's authority over the colonies.
- Parliament attempted to resolve these issues through the Tea Act, which in turn set the stage for the Boston Tea Party and eventually the American Revolution.
- Parliament passed a new act in 1772 that reduced this refund, effectively leaving a 10% duty on tea imported into Britain.
- The North ministry's solution was the Tea Act, which received the assent of King George in May of 1773.
- The Tea Act retained the three pence Townshend duty on tea imported to the colonies.
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- In response to the British Tea Act of 1773, the Sons of Liberty took action in what would later be known as the Boston Tea Party.
- Upon hearing word of the details in the British Tea Act of 1773, the Sons of Liberty took action after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain.
- The Boston Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773.
- Americans learned the details of the Tea Act while the ships were en route, and opposition began to mount.
- Evaluate the political and economic motivations that shaped the colonial response to the Tea Act
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- Like the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts led many colonists to work together against what they perceived to be an unconstitutional measure.
- The Tea Act of 1773 triggered a reaction with far more significant consequences than either the 1765 Stamp Act or the 1767 Townshend Acts.
- They understood that Parliament had again asserted its right to impose taxes without representation, and they feared the Tea Act was designed to seduce them into conceding this important principle by lowering the price of tea to the point that colonists might be satisfied.
- They also deeply resented the East India Company’s monopoly on the sale of tea in the American colonies; this resentment sprang from the knowledge that some members of Parliament had invested heavily in the company.
- The colonial rejection of the Tea Act culminated in an act of resistance known as the Boston Tea Party, in which a group of colonists from the Sons of Liberty threw $1 million (in today's dollars) worth of British tea into the Boston Harbor that was meant to be sold in the colonies.
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- The first wave of protests attacked the Stamp Act of 1765, and marked the first time Americans from each of the thirteen colonies met together and planned a common front against illegal taxes.
- The Boston Tea Party of 1773, the most popular example, dumped British tea into Boston Harbor because it contained a hidden tax Americans refused to pay.
- The Parliament attempted a series of taxes and punishments which met more and more resistance, namely the First Quartering Act (1765), the Declaratory Act (1766), the Townshend Revenue Act (1767), and the Tea Act (1773).
- In response to the Boston Tea Party Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts: the Second Quartering Act (1774), the Quebec Act (1774), the Massachusetts Government Act (1774), the Administration of Justice Act (1774), the Boston Port Act (1774), and the Prohibitory Act (1775).
- During the Boston Tea Party of 1773, Americans dumped British tea into Boston Harbor in protest of a hidden tax.
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- Proving their commitment to "the cause of liberty and industry" they openly opposed the Tea Act.
- They experimented to find substitutes for taxed goods such as tea and sugar.
- Discoveries like boiled basil leaves to make a tea-like drink, referred to as Liberty Tea, helped lift spirits and also allowed Colonials to keep traditions alive without the use of British taxed tea .
- They helped end the Stamp Act in 1766.
- These import duties were birthed from the Intolerable Acts that Britain passed in the wake of the Boston Tea Party the previous year, which protested high taxes against tea and other products.
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- Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773.
- The first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party was the Boston Port Act.
- This law closed the port of Boston until the East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea and the king was satisfied that order had been restored.
- Colonists objected that the Port Act punished all of Boston rather than just the individuals who had destroyed the tea.
- Although many colonists found the Quartering Act objectionable, it generated the least amount of protest of the Coercive Acts.
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- In 2010, Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, initiating the first significant overhaul of the healthcare system since 1965.
- Discontent over the Affordable Care Act helped the Republicans capture the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections.
- It also helped spawn the Tea Party, a conservative movement focused primarily on limiting government spending and the size of the federal government.
- Hobby Lobby, the Court ruled that "closely-held" for-profit corporations could be exempt on religious grounds under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act from regulations adopted under the Affordable Care Act that would have required them to pay for insurance that covered certain contraceptives.
- Tea Party protesters at the Taxpayer March on Washington, September 12, 2009
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- Trade with Great Britain fell sharply, and the British responded with the New England Restraining Act of 1775.
- The petition expressed loyalty to the king and hoped for redress of grievances relating to the Coercive Acts and other issues that helped foment the American Revolution.
- The British Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in 1774 to reform colonial administration in British America and, in part, to punish the Province of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
- In May 1774, the Boston Town Meeting, with Samuel Adams acting as moderator, passed a resolution that called for an economic boycott in response to the Boston Port Act, which was one of the Coercive Acts.
- The articles of the Continental Association imposed an immediate ban on British tea and a ban on importing or consuming any goods (including the slave trade) from Britain, Ireland, and the British West Indies to take effect on December 1, 1774.
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- The first of the Townshend Acts, sometimes simply known as the Townshend Act, was the Revenue Act of 1767.
- This act represented a new approach for generating tax revenue in the American colonies after the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766.
- Discoveries like boiled basil leaves to make a tea-like drink, referred to as Liberty Tea, helped lift spirits and also allowed colonists to keep traditions alive without the use of British taxed tea.
- They helped end the Stamp Act in 1766.
- Although some in Parliament advocated a complete repeal of the act, North disagreed, arguing that the tea duty should be retained to assert the right of taxing the Americans.
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- It also helped spawn the Tea Party, a conservative movement that emerged from the right wing of the Republican Party and pulled the traditional conservative base further to the right.
- The Tea Party, which was strongly opposed to abortion, gun control, and immigration, focused primarily on limiting government spending and the size of the federal government.
- Even at that time, some conservative activists and Tea Party-affiliated politicians were already calling on congressional Republicans to be willing to shut down the government in order to force congressional Democrats and the President to agree to deep cuts in spending and the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as "Obamacare"), which had been signed into law only a few months earlier.
- On October 1, 2013, many aspects of the Affordable Care Act implementation took effect, and the health insurance exchanges created by the Act launched as scheduled.
- The caucus is sympathetic to the Tea Party movement.